lunaticus
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /luːˈnaː.ti.kus/, [ɫ̪uːˈnäːt̪ɪkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /luˈna.ti.kus/, [luˈnäːt̪ikus]
Adjective
lūnāticus (feminine lūnātica, neuter lūnāticum); first/second-declension adjective
- Of, or living on, the moon
- epileptic, lunatic, moonstruck, crazy
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | lūnāticus | lūnātica | lūnāticum | lūnāticī | lūnāticae | lūnātica | |
| genitive | lūnāticī | lūnāticae | lūnāticī | lūnāticōrum | lūnāticārum | lūnāticōrum | |
| dative | lūnāticō | lūnāticae | lūnāticō | lūnāticīs | |||
| accusative | lūnāticum | lūnāticam | lūnāticum | lūnāticōs | lūnāticās | lūnātica | |
| ablative | lūnāticō | lūnāticā | lūnāticō | lūnāticīs | |||
| vocative | lūnātice | lūnātica | lūnāticum | lūnāticī | lūnāticae | lūnātica | |
Descendants
- English: lunatic
- French: lunatique
- Italian: lunatico
- Norman: leunatique
References
- “lunaticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lunaticus 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)
- lunaticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.