proletarius

Latin

Etymology

From prōlēs (“offspring”) +‎ -ārius with an altered stem prōlēt-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /proː.leːˈtaː.ri.us/, [proːɫ̪eːˈt̪äːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pro.leˈta.ri.us/, [proleˈt̪äːrius]

Adjective

prōlētārius (feminine prōlētāria, neuter prōlētārium); first/second-declension adjective

1. belonging to the lowest class of citizens, whose only contribution to the State was their offspring

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	prōlētārius	prōlētāria	prōlētārium		prōlētāriī	prōlētāriae	prōlētāria
Genitive	prōlētāriī	prōlētāriae	prōlētāriī		prōlētāriōrum	prōlētāriārum	prōlētāriōrum
Dative	prōlētāriō		prōlētāriō		prōlētāriīs
Accusative	prōlētārium	prōlētāriam	prōlētārium		prōlētāriōs	prōlētāriās	prōlētāria
Ablative	prōlētāriō	prōlētāriā	prōlētāriō		prōlētāriīs
Vocative	prōlētārie	prōlētāria	prōlētārium		prōlētāriī	prōlētāriae	prōlētāria

Antonyms

• classicus

Descendants

• → Asturian: proletariu
• → Catalan: proletari
• → French: prolétaire
  • → English: proletaire
  • → German: Proletarier
    • → Dutch: proletariër
      • → Indonesian: proletariat
    • → Georgian: პროლეტარიატი (ṗroleṭariaṭi)
  • → Romanian: proletar
  • → French: prolétariat
    • → Arabic: بْرُولِيتَارِيَا (brūlītāriyā)
    • → Belarusian: пралетарыя́т (praljetaryját)
    • → English: proletariat
    • → German: Proletariat
      • → Japanese: プロレタリアート (puroretariāto)
    • → Polish: proletariat
    • → Romanian: proletariat
    • → Russian: пролетариа́т (proletariát)
    • → Ukrainian: пролетаріа́т (proletariát)
• → Galician: proletario
• → Georgian: პროლეტარი (ṗroleṭari)
• → Italian: proletario
• → Korean: 프롤레타리아 (peurolletaria)
• → Occitan: proletari
• → Portuguese: proletário
• → Russian: пролета́рий (proletárij)
  • → Armenian: պրոլետար (proletar)
  • → Azerbaijani:

    Latin script: proletar

    Cyrillic script: пролетар

  • → Belarusian: пралета́р (praljetár)
  • → Estonian: proletaar
  • → Kazakh: пролетар (proletar)
  • → Kyrgyz: пролетар (proletar)
  • → Latvian: proletār
  • → Lithuanian: proletar
  • → Tajik: пролетар (proletar)
  • → Turkmen:

    Latin script: proletar

    Cyrillic script: пролетар

  • → Ukrainian: пролета́р (proletár)
  • → Uzbek:

    Latin script: proletar

    Cyrillic script: пролетар (proletar)

• → Spanish: proletario

References

• “proletarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “proletarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• proletarius in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• proletarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.