acephalus
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English[edit]
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Noun[edit]
acephalus (countable and uncountable, plural acephali)
- (medicine, countable) A fetus affected by acephaly.
- (medicine, uncountable) The condition of acephaly.
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Latin[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek ἀκέφαλος (aképhalos, “headless”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈke.pʰa.lus/, [äˈkɛpʰäɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈt͡ʃe.fa.lus/, [äˈt͡ʃɛːfälus]
Adjective[edit]
acephalus (feminine acephala, neuter acephalum); first/second-declension adjective
- Without a head, chief or leader.
- Of a hexameter which begins with a short syllable.
- Acephalite; pertaining to a Monophysite heresy.
- c. 703, Bede, Chronica Minor:
- Hoc tempore eadem acephalorum heresis sub anathemate condemnatur.
- At the same time [as the reign of Justinian, son of Heraclius], the headless ones' heresy was condemned with anathema.
- (Medieval Latin) Heathen.
- (Medieval Latin, of a bishop) Without a fixed diocese.
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | acephalus | acephala | acephalum | acephalī | acephalae | acephala | |
Genitive | acephalī | acephalae | acephalī | acephalōrum | acephalārum | acephalōrum | |
Dative | acephalō | acephalō | acephalīs | ||||
Accusative | acephalum | acephalam | acephalum | acephalōs | acephalās | acephala | |
Ablative | acephalō | acephalā | acephalō | acephalīs | |||
Vocative | acephale | acephala | acephalum | acephalī | acephalae | acephala |
Descendants[edit]
- → English: acephalous
- → Middle French: acephale
- French: acéphale
- → Portuguese: acéfalo
- → Spanish: acéfalo
References[edit]
- “acephalus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- acephalus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “acephalus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill
Further reading[edit]
- Paulicianism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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