ludus
Esperanto
Verb
ludus
- conditional of ludi
Latin
Etymology
Along with lūdō either from Proto-Indo-European *loydos < *leyd- (“to play”) or from Etruscan.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈluː.dus/, [ˈɫ̪uːd̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.dus/, [ˈluːd̪us]
Noun
lūdus m (genitive lūdī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lūdus | lūdī |
Genitive | lūdī | lūdōrum |
Dative | lūdō | lūdīs |
Accusative | lūdum | lūdōs |
Ablative | lūdō | lūdīs |
Vocative | lūde | lūdī |
Derived terms
References
- “ludus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ludus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ludus 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)
- ludus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to give funeral games in honour of a person: ludos funebres alicui dare
- an elementary school: ludus (discendi or litterarum)
- the piece; the play: fabula, ludus scaenicus
- to institute games: ludos apparare
- to give public games in honour of Jupiter: ludos facere, edere (Iovi)
- to revive public games: ludos instaurare
- a school for gladiators: ludus gladiatorius
- crowded games: celebritas ludorum
- sumptuous public games: magnificentia ludorum
- (ambiguous) performances in the circus; theatrical perfomances: ludi circenses, scaenici
- (ambiguous) sumptuous public games: ludi apparatissimi
- (ambiguous) the Olympian, Pythian games: ludi Olympia (not ludi Olympici), Pythia
- (ambiguous) gymnastic contests: ludi gymnici
- to give funeral games in honour of a person: ludos funebres alicui dare
Categories:
- Esperanto non-lemma forms
- Esperanto verb forms
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from Etruscan
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the second declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
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