blandulus
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Latin[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈblan.du.lus/, [ˈbɫ̪än̪d̪ʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈblan.du.lus/, [ˈblän̪d̪ulus]
Adjective[edit]
blandulus (feminine blandula, neuter blandulum); first/second-declension adjective
- (hapax) Diminutive of blandus (“charming, pleasant”)
- 76 CE – 108 CE, Hadrian, Carmina 3:
- Animula vagula blandula,
hospes comesque corporis,
quae nunc abībis in loca
pallidula, rigida, nūdula,
nec ut solēs dabis iocōs...- Translation by Wikisource
- Little soul, wandering, pleasing,
guest and companion of the body,
which now go away in places
pale, stiff, bare,
and will not jest as you do...
- Little soul, wandering, pleasing,
- Translation by Wikisource
- Animula vagula blandula,
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | blandulus | blandula | blandulum | blandulī | blandulae | blandula | |
| Genitive | blandulī | blandulae | blandulī | blandulōrum | blandulārum | blandulōrum | |
| Dative | blandulō | blandulō | blandulīs | ||||
| Accusative | blandulum | blandulam | blandulum | blandulōs | blandulās | blandula | |
| Ablative | blandulō | blandulā | blandulō | blandulīs | |||
| Vocative | blandule | blandula | blandulum | blandulī | blandulae | blandula | |
Descendants[edit]
- Aromanian: blãndur
References[edit]
- “blandulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- blandulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.