caelum
See also: Caelum
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkae̯.lum/, [ˈkäe̯ɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.lum/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːlum]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *kailom (cognate of Oscan 𐌊𐌀𐌝𐌋𐌀 (kaíla, “kind of building”)), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂i-lom (“whole”), from *keh₂i-.[1]
Alternative forms
- cælum (Medieval Latin)
- cael (Old Latin, an apocope, found only in a surviving fragment of Ennius’ Annales)
- caelus (Old Latin, and rarely in Classical and Late Latin)
- coelum, cœlum
Noun
caelum n (genitive caelī); second declension
- (vault of) heaven
- Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Genesis 28:12:
- viditque in somnis scalam stantem super terram et cacumen illius tangens caelum
- And he saw in his dream a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven
- viditque in somnis scalam stantem super terram et cacumen illius tangens caelum
- sky
- atmosphere, climate, weather
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter or otherwise).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | caelum | caelī |
Genitive | caelī | caelōrum |
Dative | caelō | caelīs |
Accusative | caelum | caelōs |
Ablative | caelō | caelīs |
Vocative | caelum | caelī |
The plural is masculine.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Eastern Romance
- Franco-Provençal: cièl, ceu
- Gallo-Italic
- Lombard: ciel
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Old French: ciel, cel
- Old Occitan: cel
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Sardinian: chelu
- Venetian: cielo, cel
- Western Iberian
- → Albanian: qiell (possibly)
- → Basque: zeru
Etymology 2
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From Proto-Italic *kaid(s)lom, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“cut, hew”) (whence also caedō (“I cut”)).[2]
Alternative forms
Noun
caelum n (genitive caelī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | caelum | caela |
Genitive | caelī | caelōrum |
Dative | caelō | caelīs |
Accusative | caelum | caela |
Ablative | caelō | caelīs |
Vocative | caelum | caela |
Related terms
Descendants
- → English: Caelum
References
- “1caelum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “2caelum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caelum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- 1 caelum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- 2 caelum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to raise the eyes to heaven; to look up to the sky: suspicere (in) caelum
- to raise the eyes to heaven; to look up to the sky: oculos tollere, attollere ad caelum
- climate: caelum or natura caeli
- healthy climate: caelum salūbre, salubritas caeli (opp. grave, gravitas)
- temperate climate: caeli temperatio
- rough climate: caeli asperitas
- variable climate: caeli varietas
- the star-lit sky; the firmament: caelum astris distinctum et ornatum
- the pole: vertex caeli, axis caeli, cardo caeli
- a storm accompanied by heavy claps of thunder: tempestas cum magno fragore (caeli) tonitribusque (Liv. 1. 16)
- the heavens are shaken by the thunder: caelum tonitru contremit
- to extol, laud to the skies: laudibus aliquem (aliquid) in caelum ferre, efferre, tollere
- to raise the hands to heaven (attitude of prayer): (supinas) manus ad caelum tendere
- (ambiguous) to run its course in the sky: cursum conficere in caelo
- (ambiguous) to be struck by lightning: de caelo tangi, percuti
- (ambiguous) when it is growing dusk; towards evening: die, caelo vesperascente
- (ambiguous) to observe the sky (i.e. the flight of birds, lightning, thunder, etc.: de caelo servare (Att. 4. 3. 3)
- to raise the eyes to heaven; to look up to the sky: suspicere (in) caelum
- “caelum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “caelum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “caelum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 80-81
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “caedō, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 79-80
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