lemniscatus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek Λῆμνος (Lêmnos)

Proto-Indo-European *-iskos

Ancient Greek -ίσκος (-ískos)

Ancient Greek λημνῐ́σκος (lēmnĭ́skos)bor.

Latin lēmniscus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātus

Latin lēmniscātus

From lēmniscus + -ātus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫeːm.nɪsˈkaː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [lem.nisˈkaː.tus]

Adjective

lēmniscātus (feminine lēmniscāta, neuter lēmniscātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. decorated with hanging ribbons.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	lēmniscātus	lēmniscāta	lēmniscātum		lēmniscātī	lēmniscātae	lēmniscāta
genitive	lēmniscātī	lēmniscātae	lēmniscātī		lēmniscātōrum	lēmniscātārum	lēmniscātōrum
dative	lēmniscātō	lēmniscātae	lēmniscātō		lēmniscātīs
accusative	lēmniscātum	lēmniscātam	lēmniscātum		lēmniscātōs	lēmniscātās	lēmniscāta
ablative	lēmniscātō	lēmniscātā	lēmniscātō		lēmniscātīs
vocative	lēmniscāte	lēmniscāta	lēmniscātum		lēmniscātī	lēmniscātae	lēmniscāta

Related terms

• lēmniscus

Descendants

• German: Lemniskate
• English: lemniscate
• Galician: lemniscata
• Kazakh: лемниската (lemniskata)
• Polish: lemniskata
• Portuguese: lemniscata
• Russian: лемниската (lemniskata)
• Serbo-Croatian: лемниската

References

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