dialectos

Asturian

Noun

dialectos

1. plural of dialectu

Latin

Alternative forms

• dialectus

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́λεκτος (diálektos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /di.aˈlek.tos/, [d̪iäˈɫ̪ɛkt̪ɔs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.aˈlek.tos/, [d̪iäˈlɛkt̪os]

Noun

dialectos f (genitive dialectī); second declension

1. a dialect (a form of a language peculiar to a region) (esp. Greek)
   • c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, Vita Divi Tiberii 56:

     Nihilo lenior in convictores Graeculos, quibus vel maxime adquiescebat, Xenonem quendam exquisitius sermocinantem cum interrogasset, quaenam illa tam molesta dialectos esset, et ille respondisset Doridem, relegavit Cinariam, existimans exprobratum sibi veterem secessum, quod Dorice Rhodii loquantur.

     He was not a whit milder towards his Greek companions, in whose society he took special pleasure. When one Xeno was holding forth in somewhat far-fetched phrases, he asked him what dialect that was which was so affected, and on Xeno's replying that it was Doric, he banished him to Cinaria, believing that he was being taunted with his old-time exile, inasmuch as the Rhodians spoke Doric.

Usage notes

• Nouns of feminine gender are relatively rare in this declension; dialectos inherits its feminine gender from the Ancient Greek word διάλεκτος.

Declension

Second-declension noun (Greek-type).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dialectos	dialectī
Genitive	dialectī	dialectōrum
Dative	dialectō	dialectīs
Accusative	dialecton	dialectōs
Ablative	dialectō	dialectīs
Vocative	dialecte	dialectī

Descendants

• → Asturian: dialectu m
  • Asturian: dialeutu
• → Catalan: dialecte m
• → German: Dialekt m
• Istriot: gialìto m
• Italian: dialetto m
• → Middle French: dialecte m
  • French: dialecte
    • → Romanian: dialect
    • → Turkish: diyalekt
  • → English: dialect
• → Norman: dgialecte m
• → Occitan: dialècte m
• Piedmontese: dialèt m
• → Portuguese: dialeto m
• Sardinian: dialetu m
• Sicilian: dialettu m
  • Sicilian: rialettu
• → Spanish: dialecto m
• Venetian: diałeto m

References

• “dĭălectos or -us”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• (-us) dĭălectŏs (-us) in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 518/1.
• dialectos in Ramminger, Johann (2024 April 19 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “dialectos” on page 536/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Portuguese

Noun

dialectos

1. plural of dialecto

Spanish

Noun

dialectos m pl

1. plural of dialecto