celsus
Latin
Etymology
Participle of lost *cellō, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-n-to-, from *kelH- (“to rise”) (whence collis, columen etc.).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkel.sus/, [ˈkɛɫ̪s̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃel.sus/, [ˈt͡ʃɛlsus]
Adjective
celsus (feminine celsa, neuter celsum, comparative celsior); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | celsus | celsa | celsum | celsī | celsae | celsa | |
| Genitive | celsī | celsae | celsī | celsōrum | celsārum | celsōrum | |
| Dative | celsō | celsō | celsīs | ||||
| Accusative | celsum | celsam | celsum | celsōs | celsās | celsa | |
| Ablative | celsō | celsā | celsō | celsīs | |||
| Vocative | celse | celsa | celsum | celsī | celsae | celsa | |
Related terms
References
- “celsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “celsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- celsus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- celsus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “celsus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “celsus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray