clandestinus
Latin
Etymology
From an earlier adverb *clam-de (“secretly”) (from clam and -de, also seen in unde, etc.), to which the suffix -stīnus was added.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /klan.deːsˈtiː.nus/, [kɫ̪än̪d̪eːs̠ˈt̪iːnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /klan.desˈti.nus/, [klän̪d̪esˈt̪iːnus]
Adjective
clandēstīnus (feminine clandēstīna, neuter clandēstīnum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | clandēstīnus | clandēstīna | clandēstīnum | clandēstīnī | clandēstīnae | clandēstīna | |
| Genitive | clandēstīnī | clandēstīnae | clandēstīnī | clandēstīnōrum | clandēstīnārum | clandēstīnōrum | |
| Dative | clandēstīnō | clandēstīnō | clandēstīnīs | ||||
| Accusative | clandēstīnum | clandēstīnam | clandēstīnum | clandēstīnōs | clandēstīnās | clandēstīna | |
| Ablative | clandēstīnō | clandēstīnā | clandēstīnō | clandēstīnīs | |||
| Vocative | clandēstīne | clandēstīna | clandēstīnum | clandēstīnī | clandēstīnae | clandēstīna | |
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: clandestí
- → English: clandestine
- French: clandestin
- Italian: clandestino
- Portuguese: clandestino
- → Romanian: clandestin
- Spanish: clandestino
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 117: “clam”
- “clandestinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “clandestinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- clandestinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.