spurius
See also: Spurius
Latin
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *sper- (“to scatter”) or from *sperH- (whence spernō).
Others refer it to Etruscan 𐌔𐤂𐌖𐌓𐌀𐌋 (spural, “public”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈspu.ri.us/, [ˈs̠pʊriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspu.ri.us/, [ˈspuːrius]
Adjective
spurius (feminine spuria, neuter spurium); first/second-declension adjective
- of illegitimate birth but unknown father
- false, spurious
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | spurius | spuria | spurium | spuriī | spuriae | spuria | |
| Genitive | spuriī | spuriae | spuriī | spuriōrum | spuriārum | spuriōrum | |
| Dative | spuriō | spuriō | spuriīs | ||||
| Accusative | spurium | spuriam | spurium | spuriōs | spuriās | spuria | |
| Ablative | spuriō | spuriā | spuriō | spuriīs | |||
| Vocative | spurie | spuria | spurium | spuriī | spuriae | spuria | |
See also
- nothus (illegitimate, but known father)
Descendants
References
- “spurius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- spurius 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)
- spurius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “spurius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray