prominens
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Present active participle of prōmineō (“jut out, project”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈproː.mi.nens/, [ˈproːmɪnẽːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpro.mi.nens/, [ˈprɔːminens]
Participle
[edit]prōminēns (genitive prōminentis); third-declension one-termination participle
- prominent, jutting out, projecting
Declension
[edit]Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | prōminēns | prōminentēs | prōminentia | ||
Genitive | prōminentis | prōminentium | |||
Dative | prōminentī | prōminentibus | |||
Accusative | prōminentem | prōminēns | prōminentēs prōminentīs |
prōminentia | |
Ablative | prōminente prōminentī1 |
prōminentibus | |||
Vocative | prōminēns | prōminentēs | prōminentia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
Descendants
[edit]- English: prominent
- Galician: prominente
- Italian: prominente
- Spanish: prominente
- Portuguese: prominente
- Hungarian: prominens
References
[edit]- “prominens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “prominens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- prominens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.