eleemosyna
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐλεημοσύνη (eleēmosúnē).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /e.le.eːˈmo.sy.na/, [ɛɫ̪eːˈmɔs̠ʏnä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.le.eˈmo.si.na/, [eleːˈmɔːs̬inä]
Noun
eleēmosyna f (genitive eleēmosynae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | eleēmosyna | eleēmosynae |
| Genitive | eleēmosynae | eleēmosynārum |
| Dative | eleēmosynae | eleēmosynīs |
| Accusative | eleēmosynam | eleēmosynās |
| Ablative | eleēmosynā | eleēmosynīs |
| Vocative | eleēmosyna | eleēmosynae |
Descendants
- Italian: elemosina, limosina (archaic, colloquial)
- → Romanian: elemozină
- Vulgar Latin: *alemosyna (see there for further descendants)
- → Albanian: lëmoshë (or via Germanic)
Further reading
- “eleemosyna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- eleemosyna 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)
- eleemosyna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.