adoptivus
Latin
Etymology
From adoptō (“to choose”) + -īvus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /a.dopˈtiː.u̯us/, [äd̪ɔpˈt̪iːu̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.dopˈti.vus/, [äd̪opˈt̪iːvus]
Adjective
adoptīvus (feminine adoptīva, neuter adoptīvum); first/second-declension adjective
- adoptive (by adoption)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | adoptīvus | adoptīva | adoptīvum | adoptīvī | adoptīvae | adoptīva | |
| Genitive | adoptīvī | adoptīvae | adoptīvī | adoptīvōrum | adoptīvārum | adoptīvōrum | |
| Dative | adoptīvō | adoptīvō | adoptīvīs | ||||
| Accusative | adoptīvum | adoptīvam | adoptīvum | adoptīvōs | adoptīvās | adoptīva | |
| Ablative | adoptīvō | adoptīvā | adoptīvō | adoptīvīs | |||
| Vocative | adoptīve | adoptīva | adoptīvum | adoptīvī | adoptīvae | adoptīva | |
Descendants
References
- “adoptivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “adoptivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- adoptivus 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)
- adoptivus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.