excellens
Latin
Etymology
Present participle of excellō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ekˈskel.lens/, [ɛkˈs̠kɛlːʲẽːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈʃel.lens/, [ekˈʃɛlːens]
Participle
excellēns (genitive excellentis); third-declension one-termination participle
Declension
Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | excellēns | excellentēs | excellentia | ||
Genitive | excellentis | excellentium | |||
Dative | excellentī | excellentibus | |||
Accusative | excellentem | excellēns | excellentēs excellentīs |
excellentia | |
Ablative | excellente excellentī1 |
excellentibus | |||
Vocative | excellēns | excellentēs | excellentia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
Adjective
excellēns (genitive excellentis, comparative excellentior, superlative excellentissimus, adverb excellenter); third-declension one-termination adjective (comp. excellentior; sup. excellentissimus; adv. excellenter)
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | excellēns | excellentēs | excellentia | ||
Genitive | excellentis | excellentium | |||
Dative | excellentī | excellentibus | |||
Accusative | excellentem | excellēns | excellentēs | excellentia | |
Ablative | excellentī | excellentibus | |||
Vocative | excellēns | excellentēs | excellentia |
Descendants
- Catalan: excel·lent
- English: excellent
- French: excellent
- German: exzellent
- Italian: eccellente
- Portuguese: excelente
- Spanish: excelente
- Emilian: eselèint
References
- “excellens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “excellens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- excellens 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)
- excellens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin participles
- Latin present participles
- Latin third declension participles
- Latin third declension participles of one termination
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
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- Latin third declension adjectives of one termination