mendicus

Latin

Etymology

From menda (“physical defect, fault”) +‎ -icus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /menˈdiː.kus/, [mɛn̪ˈd̪iːkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /menˈdi.kus/, [men̪ˈd̪iːkus]

Adjective

mendīcus (feminine mendīca, neuter mendīcum, superlative mendīcissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. beggarly, needy, indigent

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	mendīcus	mendīca	mendīcum		mendīcī	mendīcae	mendīca
Genitive	mendīcī	mendīcae	mendīcī		mendīcōrum	mendīcārum	mendīcōrum
Dative	mendīcō		mendīcō		mendīcīs
Accusative	mendīcum	mendīcam	mendīcum		mendīcōs	mendīcās	mendīca
Ablative	mendīcō	mendīcā	mendīcō		mendīcīs
Vocative	mendīce	mendīca	mendīcum		mendīcī	mendīcae	mendīca

Derived terms

• mendīcitās
• mendīcō

Descendants

• Asturian: méndigu
• Galician: mendigo
• Italian: mendico
• Portuguese: mendigo
• Spanish: mendigo

Noun

mendīcus m (genitive mendīcī); second declension

1. beggar, mendicant

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mendīcus	mendīcī
Genitive	mendīcī	mendīcōrum
Dative	mendīcō	mendīcīs
Accusative	mendīcum	mendīcōs
Ablative	mendīcō	mendīcīs
Vocative	mendīce	mendīcī

References

• “mendicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mendicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mendicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “mendicus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers