dulcamarus
Latin
Etymology
dulcis (“sweet”) + amārus (“bitter”)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /duːl.kaˈmaː.rus/, [d̪uːɫ̪käˈmäːrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dul.kaˈma.rus/, [d̪ulkäˈmäːrus]
Adjective
dūlcamārus (feminine dūlcamāra, neuter dūlcamārum); first/second-declension adjective
- both sweet and bitter, bittersweet
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Plautus to this entry?)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | dūlcamārus | dūlcamāra | dūlcamārum | dūlcamārī | dūlcamārae | dūlcamāra | |
| Genitive | dūlcamārī | dūlcamārae | dūlcamārī | dūlcamārōrum | dūlcamārārum | dūlcamārōrum | |
| Dative | dūlcamārō | dūlcamārō | dūlcamārīs | ||||
| Accusative | dūlcamārum | dūlcamāram | dūlcamārum | dūlcamārōs | dūlcamārās | dūlcamāra | |
| Ablative | dūlcamārō | dūlcamārā | dūlcamārō | dūlcamārīs | |||
| Vocative | dūlcamāre | dūlcamāra | dūlcamārum | dūlcamārī | dūlcamārae | dūlcamāra | |
References
- “dūlcămārus” on page 442/1 of Louis-Marie Quicherat’s and Amédée Gaston Daveluy’s Dictionnaire Latin-Français: Nouvelle édition, revisée, corrigée et augmentée par Émile Chatelain (42nd ed., 1899)