acephalus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀκέφαλος (aképhalos, “headless”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈke.pʰa.lus/, [äˈkɛpʰäɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈt͡ʃe.fa.lus/, [äˈt͡ʃɛːfälus]
Adjective
acephalus (feminine acephala, neuter acephalum); first/second-declension adjective
- Without a head, chief or leader.
- Of a hexameter which begins with a short syllable.
- An Acephalite or Paulician, a member of an early Christian gnostic heresy
- Hoc tempore eadem acephalorum heresis sub anathemate condemnatur.
- At the same time [as the reign of Justinian, son of Heraclius], the headless ones' heresy was condemned with anathema. — Bede, Chronica Minor
- Hoc tempore eadem acephalorum heresis sub anathemate condemnatur.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | acephalus | acephala | acephalum | acephalī | acephalae | acephala | |
Genitive | acephalī | acephalae | acephalī | acephalōrum | acephalārum | acephalōrum | |
Dative | acephalō | acephalō | acephalīs | ||||
Accusative | acephalum | acephalam | acephalum | acephalōs | acephalās | acephala | |
Ablative | acephalō | acephalā | acephalō | acephalīs | |||
Vocative | acephale | acephala | acephalum | acephalī | acephalae | acephala |
Descendants
References
- “acephalus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- acephalus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Further reading
Paulicianism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia