martius
See also: Martius
Latin
Alternative forms
- Martius (alternative case form)
Etymology
From the name of the god Mārs.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmaːr.ti.us/, [ˈmäːrt̪iʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmar.t͡si.us/, [ˈmärt̪͡s̪ius]
Adjective
mārtius (feminine mārtia, neuter mārtium); first/second-declension adjective
- of March, the first month of the traditional Roman year or third month of the Gregorian calendar
- of or belonging to Mars, the god of war
- (figuratively) warlike, martial
Usage notes
In Latin, the month names are used as adjectives. In the Classical period, this adjective modifies a noun identifying a particular day, from which the date was reckoned. In Medieval Latin and later periods, the adjective modifies a numeral for the day of the month.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | mārtius | mārtia | mārtium | mārtiī | mārtiae | mārtia | |
Genitive | mārtiī | mārtiae | mārtiī | mārtiōrum | mārtiārum | mārtiōrum | |
Dative | mārtiō | mārtiō | mārtiīs | ||||
Accusative | mārtium | mārtiam | mārtium | mārtiōs | mārtiās | mārtia | |
Ablative | mārtiō | mārtiā | mārtiō | mārtiīs | |||
Vocative | mārtie | mārtia | mārtium | mārtiī | mārtiae | mārtia |
Related terms
Descendants
- Eastern Romance
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Old Occitan:
- Old French: mars
- Rhaeto-Romance
- Sardinian: maltu, maltzu, martzu, martu
- Venetian: marso
- West Iberian
- Borrowings
Unsorted borrowings
- → Alabama: Màchka
- → Amharic: ማርች (marč)
- → Arabic: مارس (mars)
- → Azerbaijani: mart
- → Danish: marts
- → Dhivehi: މާރޗް (mārc)
- → Faroese: mars
- → Fijian: Maji
- → Gilbertese: Mati
- → Greenlandic: marsi
- → Hebrew: מרס (mars)
- → Hungarian: március
- → Ilocano: marso
- → Icelandic: mars
- → Kannada: ಮಾರ್ಚಿ (mārci)
- → Kongo: marisi
- → Kyrgyz: март (mart)
- → Latvian: marts
- → Lingala: mársi
- → Livonian: märts
- → Low German: März
- → Macedonian: март (mart)
- → Maltese: Marzu
- → Marathi: मार्च (mārca)
- → North Frisian: marts, märts
- → Norwegian: mars
- → Ossetian: мартъи (mart’i)
- → Odia: ମାର୍ଚ୍ଚ (mārcca)
- → Pashto: مارچ (mārč)
- → Polish: marzec
- → Samoan: mati
- → Saterland Frisian: Meerte
- → Serbo-Croatian: март / mart
- → Sinhalese: මාර්තු (mārtu)
- → Slovak: marec
- → Slovene: marec
- → Swedish: mars
- → Tahitian: māti
- → Tamil: மார்ச் (mārc)
- → Tatar: mart, март (mart)
- → Telugu: మార్చి (mārci)
- → Turkish: mart
- → Upper Sorbian: měrc
- → Urdu: مارچ (mārc)
- → Uzbek: mart
- → West Frisian: maart
- → Zazaki: mert
See also
Roman calendar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- martius 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)