contemplativus
Latin
Etymology
From contemplō (“to survey, consider”) + -īvus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kon.tem.plaːˈtiː.u̯us/, [kɔn̪t̪ɛmpɫ̪äːˈt̪iːu̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon.tem.plaˈti.vus/, [kon̪t̪empläˈt̪iːvus]
Adjective
contemplātīvus (feminine contemplātīva, neuter contemplātīvum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | contemplātīvus | contemplātīva | contemplātīvum | contemplātīvī | contemplātīvae | contemplātīva | |
| Genitive | contemplātīvī | contemplātīvae | contemplātīvī | contemplātīvōrum | contemplātīvārum | contemplātīvōrum | |
| Dative | contemplātīvō | contemplātīvō | contemplātīvīs | ||||
| Accusative | contemplātīvum | contemplātīvam | contemplātīvum | contemplātīvōs | contemplātīvās | contemplātīva | |
| Ablative | contemplātīvō | contemplātīvā | contemplātīvō | contemplātīvīs | |||
| Vocative | contemplātīve | contemplātīva | contemplātīvum | contemplātīvī | contemplātīvae | contemplātīva | |
Descendants
- → Catalan: contemplatiu
- → French: contemplatif
- → Galician: contemplativo
- → Italian: contemplativo
- → Occitan: contemplatiu
- → Portuguese: contemplativo
- → Spanish: contemplativo
References
- “contemplativus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- contemplativus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.