historicus

Dutch

Etymology

From historie +‎ -icus.

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: his‧to‧ri‧cus

Noun

historicus m (plural historici, diminutive historicusje n)

1. historian

   Synonyms: geschiedkundige, geschiedwetenschapper

Latin

Alternative forms

• hystoricus (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

From historia (“history”) + -icus (adjective-forming suffix), from Ancient Greek ἱστορικός (historikós, “exact; historical”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɪsˈtɔ.rɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [isˈtɔː.ri.kus]

Adjective

historicus (feminine historica, neuter historicum); first/second-declension adjective

1. historical
   • 1826, Stanislaus Julien translating Mencius as Meng Tseu, p. 46:

     Ejus stylus, tunc historicus.

     [The Spring and Autumn Annals] are written in the historical style.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	historicus	historica	historicum		historicī	historicae	historica
genitive	historicī	historicae	historicī		historicōrum	historicārum	historicōrum
dative	historicō	historicae	historicō		historicīs
accusative	historicum	historicam	historicum		historicōs	historicās	historica
ablative	historicō	historicā	historicō		historicīs
vocative	historice	historica	historicum		historicī	historicae	historica

Derived terms

• historice

Descendants

• Catalan: històric
• → English: historic, historical
• French: historique
• Galician: histórico
• Italian: storico
• Occitan: istoric
• Piedmontese: stòrich
• Portuguese: histórico
• Romanian: istoric
• Spanish: histórico

References

• “historicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “historicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “historicus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • historic times: historicorum fide contestata memoria