sinister
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[edit] English
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- sinistre (obsolete)
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English sinistre (“unlucky”), from Old French sinistra (“left”), from Latin sinestra (“left hand”).
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sinister (comparative more sinister, superlative most sinister)
- Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky.
- Evil, seeming to be evil.
- Of the left side.
- 1911, Saki, ‘The Unrest-Cure’, The Chronicles of Clovis:
- Before the train had stopped he had decorated his sinister shirt-cuff with the inscription, ‘J. P. Huddle, The Warren, Tilfield, near Slowborough.’
- 1911, Saki, ‘The Unrest-Cure’, The Chronicles of Clovis:
- (heraldry) The left side of a shield from the wearer's standpoint, and the right side to the viewer.
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ominous
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evil
of the left
heraldic "left"
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sinister (comparative sinisterder, superlative sinisterst)
[edit] Latin
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sinister m. (feminine sinistra, neuter sinistrum); first/second declension
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| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case \ Gender | M. | F. | N. | MM. | FF. | NN. | |
| nominative | sinister | sinistra | sinistrum | sinistrī | sinistrae | sinistra | |
| genitive | sinistrī | sinistrae | sinistrī | sinistrōrum | sinistrārum | sinistrōrum | |
| dative | sinistrō | sinistrae | sinistrō | sinistrīs | sinistrīs | sinistrīs | |
| accusative | sinistrum | sinistram | sinistrum | sinistrōs | sinistrās | sinistra | |
| ablative | sinistrō | sinistrā | sinistrō | sinistrīs | sinistrīs | sinistrīs | |
| vocative | sinister | sinistra | sinistrum | sinistrī | sinistrae | sinistra | |
