diurnalis
Latin
Etymology
Coined as a translation for the Ancient Greek ἡμερούσιος (hēmeroúsios, “daily”) from the roots diurnus (“of or belonging to the day”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /di.urˈnaː.lis/, [d̪iʊrˈnäːlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /di.urˈna.lis/, [d̪iurˈnäːlis]
Adjective
diurnālis (neuter diurnāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- diurnal (of the day; that takes place during the day)
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | diurnālis | diurnāle | diurnālēs | diurnālia | |
| Genitive | diurnālis | diurnālium | |||
| Dative | diurnālī | diurnālibus | |||
| Accusative | diurnālem | diurnāle | diurnālēs diurnālīs |
diurnālia | |
| Ablative | diurnālī | diurnālibus | |||
| Vocative | diurnālis | diurnāle | diurnālēs | diurnālia | |
Descendants
- English: diurnal
- French: journal
- Portuguese: jornal
- Galician: xornal
- Italian: giornale
- Portuguese: diurnal
References
- “dĭurnālis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- diurnalis 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)
- dĭurnālis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 547/2.