alacer

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain origin, but possibly from a Proto-Indo-European root shared with Germanic *aljaną (“vigor, strength”), see English ellen.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈa.la.ker/, [ˈäɫ̪äkɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.la.t͡ʃer/, [ˈäːlät͡ʃer]

Adjective

alacer (feminine alacris, neuter alacre, comparative alacrior); third-declension three-termination adjective

1. Lively, brisk, quick, eager, active, peppy, excited.
2. Glad, happy, cheerful.

Declension

Third-declension three-termination adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	alacer	alacris	alacre		alacrēs		alacria
Genitive	alacris				alacrium
Dative	alacrī				alacribus
Accusative	alacrem		alacre		alacrēs		alacria
Ablative	alacrī				alacribus
Vocative	alacer	alacris	alacre		alacrēs		alacria

Derived terms

• alacritās
• alacriter

Descendants

• Aragonese: alegre
• Asturian: allegre
• Catalan: alegre
• Corsican: alegru, allegru
• Dalmatian: alegr
• English: allegro, alacrity
• Extremaduran: alegri
• French: allègre
• Friulian: legri
• Galician: alegre
• Gallurese: allegru
• Greek: αλέγρος (alégros), αλλέγρος (allégros)
• Italian: alacre, allegro
• Leonese: allegre
• Ligurian: alêgro
• Occitan: alègre
• Old French: halaigre
• Old Galician-Portuguese: alegre
• Piedmontese: alégher
• Portuguese: alegre, allegro, álacre
• Sardinian: allegru
• Sassarese: allegru
• Spanish: alacre, alegre
• Venetian: ałégro, ałłégro

References

• “alacer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “alacer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• alacer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to show a brisk and cheerful spirit: alacri et erecto animo esse