curvus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, curve, turn”) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus). Cognate with English shrink, and Latin carcer and cancer.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkur.u̯us/, [ˈkʊru̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkur.vus/, [ˈkurvus]
Adjective
curvus (feminine curva, neuter curvum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | curvus | curva | curvum | curvī | curvae | curva | |
| Genitive | curvī | curvae | curvī | curvōrum | curvārum | curvōrum | |
| Dative | curvō | curvō | curvīs | ||||
| Accusative | curvum | curvam | curvum | curvōs | curvās | curva | |
| Ablative | curvō | curvā | curvō | curvīs | |||
| Vocative | curve | curva | curvum | curvī | curvae | curva | |
Descendants
References
- “curvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “curvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- curvus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “curb”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.