celeber
Latin
Etymology
Perhaps root cognate with clueo, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew-; alternatively (if the rare meaning of "swift, in rapid succession" is to be taken as primary) connected with celer (with Greek κέλλω from a root *kel-). Jackson An Etymological Dictionary of the Latin Language (1828:77).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈke.le.ber/, [ˈkɛɫ̪ɛbɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.le.ber/, [ˈt͡ʃɛːleber]
Adjective
celeber (feminine celebris, neuter celebre, comparative celebrior, superlative celeberrimus); third-declension three-termination adjective
- containing a multitude, numerous, frequent
- crowded, populous
- honored by a great assembly, famous, celebrated, renowned
Declension
Third-declension three-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | celeber | celebris | celebre | celebrēs | celebria | ||
| Genitive | celebris | celebrium | |||||
| Dative | celebrī | celebribus | |||||
| Accusative | celebrem | celebre | celebrēs | celebria | |||
| Ablative | celebrī | celebribus | |||||
| Vocative | celeber | celebris | celebre | celebrēs | celebria | ||
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “celeber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “celeber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- celeber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.