femineus

Latin

Alternative forms

• foemineus (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-der.

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-m̥h₁n-éh₂

Proto-Italic *θēmanā

Proto-Italic *fēmanā

Latin fēmina

Latin -eus

Latin fēmineus

From fēmina + -eus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [feːˈmɪ.ne.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [feˈmiː.ne.us]

Adjective

fēmineus (feminine fēminea, neuter fēmineum); first/second-declension adjective

1. womanly, feminine
2. effeminate, unmanly

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	fēmineus	fēminea	fēmineum		fēmineī	fēmineae	fēminea
genitive	fēmineī	fēmineae	fēmineī		fēmineōrum	fēmineārum	fēmineōrum
dative	fēmineō	fēmineae	fēmineō		fēmineīs
accusative	fēmineum	fēmineam	fēmineum		fēmineōs	fēmineās	fēminea
ablative	fēmineō	fēmineā	fēmineō		fēmineīs
vocative	fēminee	fēminea	fēmineum		fēmineī	fēmineae	fēminea

Descendants

• Spanish: femíneo

References

• “femineus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “femineus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “femineus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.