paganus
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[edit] Latin
[edit] Etymology
From pāgus (“‘area outside of a city, countryside’”).
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Adjective
pāgānus m. (feminine pāgāna, neuter pāgānum); first/second declension
- Of or pertaining to the countryside, rural, rustic.
- (by extension) rustic, unlearned
- (substantive) villager, countryman
- (substantive) civilian
- (substantive, Ecclesiastical Latin) heathen, pagan
[edit] Inflection
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case \ Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | pāgānus | pāgāna | pāgānum | pāgānī | pāgānae | pāgāna | |
| genitive | pāgānī | pāgānae | pāgānī | pāgānōrum | pāgānārum | pāgānōrum | |
| dative | pāgānō | pāgānae | pāgānō | pāgānīs | pāgānīs | pāgānīs | |
| accusative | pāgānum | pāgānam | pāgānum | pāgānōs | pāgānās | pāgāna | |
| ablative | pāgānō | pāgānā | pāgānō | pāgānīs | pāgānīs | pāgānīs | |
| vocative | pāgāne | pāgāna | pāgānum | pāgānī | pāgānae | pāgāna | |
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[edit] References
- “paganus” in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon Press)