futurus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-. Cognate with English be, Ancient Greek φύω (phúō), Sanskrit भवति (bhávati), Persian بودن (budan), Irish bí, among others. Also see be.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /fuˈtuː.rus/, [fʊˈt̪uːrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fuˈtu.rus/, [fuˈt̪uːrus]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Participle
futūrus (feminine futūra, neuter futūrum); first/second-declension participle
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | futūrus | futūra | futūrum | futūrī | futūrae | futūra | |
Genitive | futūrī | futūrae | futūrī | futūrōrum | futūrārum | futūrōrum | |
Dative | futūrō | futūrō | futūrīs | ||||
Accusative | futūrum | futūram | futūrum | futūrōs | futūrās | futūra | |
Ablative | futūrō | futūrā | futūrō | futūrīs | |||
Vocative | futūre | futūra | futūrum | futūrī | futūrae | futūra |
Descendants
References
- “futurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “futurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- futurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- for the future: in posterum; in futurum
- to foresee the future: futura providere (not praevidere)
- to foresee the far distant future: futura or casus futuros (multo ante) prospicere
- to take no thought for the future: futura non cogitare, curare
- to-day the 5th of September; tomorrow September the 5th: hodie qui est dies Non. Sept.; cras qui dies futurus est Non. Sept.
- to foresee political events long before: longe prospicere futuros casus rei publicae (De Amic. 12. 40)
- for the future: in posterum; in futurum