plasticus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλαστικός (plastikós, “shapable, mouldable”).
Surface analysis: plast(ēs) (“shaper”, “moulder”) +‎ -icus (adjective-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈplas.ti.kus/, [ˈpɫ̪äs̠t̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈplas.ti.kus/, [ˈpläst̪ikus]

Adjective

plasticus (feminine plastica, neuter plasticum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or pertaining to moulding or shaping.
2. Made of plastic.
   • 2018, Tuomo Pekkanen, De eiectamentis plasticis [1], Nuntii Latini 30.3.2018:

     In regione maritima inter Californiam et Insulas Havaianas patente tanta eiectamentorum plasticorum copia fluctuat, ut magnitudine aream Francogalliae ter excedat.

     In the waters between California and Hawaii, such an amount of plastic waste bobs around that it exceeds thrice the area of France.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	plasticus	plastica	plasticum		plasticī	plasticae	plastica
genitive	plasticī	plasticae	plasticī		plasticōrum	plasticārum	plasticōrum
dative	plasticō	plasticae	plasticō		plasticīs
accusative	plasticum	plasticam	plasticum		plasticōs	plasticās	plastica
ablative	plasticō	plasticā	plasticō		plasticīs
vocative	plastice	plastica	plasticum		plasticī	plasticae	plastica

Related terms

• plastēs

Descendants

• Catalan: plàstic
• English: plastic
• → French: plastique
  • → Arabic: بلاستيك
• Italian: plastico
• Portuguese: plástico
• Spanish: plástico

References

• “plasticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• plasticus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• plasticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.