aenigmaticus

Latin

Etymology

aenigma +‎ -icus

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ae̯.nɪɡˈma.tɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [e.niɡˈmaː.ti.kus]

Adjective

aenigmaticus (feminine aenigmatica, neuter aenigmaticum); 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

• “aenigmaticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aenigmaticus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.