agrestis
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
For *agrestris, from ager (“field, farm”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈɡres.tis/, [äˈɡrɛs̠t̪ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈɡres.tis/, [äˈɡrɛst̪is]
Adjective[edit]
agrestis (neuter agreste); third-declension two-termination adjective
- Of or pertaining to land, fields or the countryside; rural, rustic, wild.
- Clownish, rude, uncultivated, coarse, savage, barbarous; brutish, wild.
Declension[edit]
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | agrestis | agreste | agrestēs | agrestia | |
| Genitive | agrestis | agrestium | |||
| Dative | agrestī | agrestibus | |||
| Accusative | agrestem | agreste | agrestēs agrestīs |
agrestia | |
| Ablative | agrestī | agrestibus | |||
| Vocative | agrestis | agreste | agrestēs | agrestia | |
Synonyms[edit]
- (rural): rūsticus
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Related terms
Descendants[edit]
- English: agrestic
- French: agreste
- Italian: agreste
- → Old Polish: agrest (learned)
- Polish: agrest
- Portuguese: agreste
- Sardinian: aresti
- Spanish: agreste
References[edit]
- “agrestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “agrestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- agrestis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Palmer, L.R. (1906) The Latin Language, London, Faber and Faber