aenigmaticus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek αἰνῐγμᾰτῐκός (ainĭgmătĭkós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ae̯.nɪɡˈma.tɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.niɡˈmaː.ti.kus]
• Hyphenation: ae‧nig‧ma‧ti‧cus

Adjective

aenigmaticus (feminine aenigmatica, neuter aenigmaticum, adverb aenigmaticē); first/second-declension adjective

1. enigmatic
2. obscure
3. puzzling

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	aenigmaticus	aenigmatica	aenigmaticum		aenigmaticī	aenigmaticae	aenigmatica
genitive	aenigmaticī	aenigmaticae	aenigmaticī		aenigmaticōrum	aenigmaticārum	aenigmaticōrum
dative	aenigmaticō	aenigmaticae	aenigmaticō		aenigmaticīs
accusative	aenigmaticum	aenigmaticam	aenigmaticum		aenigmaticōs	aenigmaticās	aenigmatica
ablative	aenigmaticō	aenigmaticā	aenigmaticō		aenigmaticīs
vocative	aenigmatice	aenigmatica	aenigmaticum		aenigmaticī	aenigmaticae	aenigmatica

Descendants

• → Asturian: enigmáticu
• → Galician: enigmático
• → French: énigmatique, ænigmatique (archaic) (learned)
  • → English: enigmatic
  • → Romanian: enigmatic
• → Italian: enigmatico
• → Portuguese: enigmático
• → Spanish: enigmático

References

• “aenigmăticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “aenigmaticus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC