Celticus

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Celtae (Celts) +‎ -icus

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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Celticus (feminine Celtica, neuter Celticum, adverb Celticē); first/second-declension adjective

  1. Celtic

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Galician: Céltigos
  • English: Celtic
  • French: celtique
  • Galician: céltico
  • Italian: celtico
  • Portuguese: céltico
  • Spanish: céltico

Noun

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Celticus m (genitive Celticī); second declension

  1. the Celtic nation, the land of the Celts
  2. (<span id="rfv-sense-notice-la-not in dicts (like L&S, Du Cange et al., Gaffiot), compared with e.g. Latīnum & Graecum it's rather neuter Celticum; also there's not a single Celtic language but several languages, so possible it's rather something like "the Celtic languages viewed as a single language, the Celtic language family"">Can we verify(+) this sense?) the Celtic language

Declension

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References

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  • Celtae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Celticus 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)
  • Celticus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016