sortilegus

English

Noun

sortilegus (plural sortilegi)

1. A diviner or soothsayer.

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Latin

Etymology

From sors (“fortune, lot”) +‎ -legus (suffix indicating a gathering role).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sorˈti.le.ɡus/, [s̠ɔrˈt̪ɪɫ̪ɛɡʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sorˈti.le.ɡus/, [sorˈt̪iːleɡus]

Adjective

sortilegus (feminine sortilega, neuter sortilegum); first/second-declension adjective

1. that predicts the future; (relational) fortune-telling, soothsaying

Declension

First/second-declension adjective

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	sortilegus	sortilega	sortilegum		sortilegī	sortilegae	sortilega
genitive	sortilegī	sortilegae	sortilegī		sortilegōrum	sortilegārum	sortilegōrum
dative	sortilegō	sortilegae	sortilegō		sortilegīs
accusative	sortilegum	sortilegam	sortilegum		sortilegōs	sortilegās	sortilega
ablative	sortilegō	sortilegā	sortilegō		sortilegīs
vocative	sortilege	sortilega	sortilegum		sortilegī	sortilegae	sortilega

Noun

sortilegus m (genitive sortilegī); second declension

1. fortune-teller, soothsayer
2. (historical, Ancient Rome) A soothsayer who practices divination.

Declension

Second-declension noun

	singular	plural
nominative	sortilegus	sortilegī
genitive	sortilegī	sortilegōrum
dative	sortilegō	sortilegīs
accusative	sortilegum	sortilegōs
ablative	sortilegō	sortilegīs
vocative	sortilege	sortilegī

Derived terms

• (Medieval Latin) sortilegium

Descendants

• Catalan: sortíleg
• Italian: sortilego
• Portuguese: sortílego
• Spanish: sortílego
• Descendants of sortilegium:
  • French: sortilège
    • English: sortilege

References

• “sortilegus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sortilegus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sortilegus 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)
• sortilegus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.