cunctus
Latin
Etymology
- Some say contraction of *coiūnctus, making it a doublet of coniūnctus (“conjoined, connected”).
- Some say contraction of concitus.[1]
- Some refer it to Proto-Indo-European *ponkʷ-to- (“all, whole”). May be cognate with Hittite 𒉺𒀭𒆪𒍑 (pa-an-ku-uš, “family”) and Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe (“whole hand, number five”).[2]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkuːnk.tus/, [ˈkuːŋkt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkunk.tus/, [ˈkuŋkt̪us]
Adjective
cūnctus (feminine cūncta, neuter cūnctum); first/second-declension adjective
- all collectively, whole
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | cūnctus | cūncta | cūnctum | cūnctī | cūnctae | cūncta | |
Genitive | cūnctī | cūnctae | cūnctī | cūnctōrum | cūnctārum | cūnctōrum | |
Dative | cūnctō | cūnctō | cūnctīs | ||||
Accusative | cūnctum | cūnctam | cūnctum | cūnctōs | cūnctās | cūncta | |
Ablative | cūnctō | cūnctā | cūnctō | cūnctīs | |||
Vocative | cūncte | cūncta | cūnctum | cūnctī | cūnctae | cūncta |
References
- “cunctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cunctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cunctus 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)
- cunctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be elected unanimousl: omnes centurias ferre or omnium suffragiis, cunctis centuriis creari
- to be elected unanimousl: omnes centurias ferre or omnium suffragiis, cunctis centuriis creari
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 538
- ^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN