mundanus

Latin

Etymology

mundus +‎ -ānus

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /munˈdaː.nus/, [mʊn̪ˈd̪äːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /munˈda.nus/, [mun̪ˈd̪äːnus]

Adjective

mundānus (feminine mundāna, neuter mundānum); first/second-declension adjective

1. worldly, mundane
2. cosmopolitan

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	mundānus	mundāna	mundānum		mundānī	mundānae	mundāna
Genitive	mundānī	mundānae	mundānī		mundānōrum	mundānārum	mundānōrum
Dative	mundānō		mundānō		mundānīs
Accusative	mundānum	mundānam	mundānum		mundānōs	mundānās	mundāna
Ablative	mundānō	mundānā	mundānō		mundānīs
Vocative	mundāne	mundāna	mundānum		mundānī	mundānae	mundāna

Derived terms

• ultrāmundānus (Late Latin)

Descendants

• → French: mondain
• → Italian: mondano
• → Portuguese: mundano
• → Romanian: mundan
• → Spanish: mundano

References

• “mundanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mundanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mundanus 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)
• mundanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a citizen of the world; cosmopolitan: mundanus, mundi civis et incola (Tusc. 5. 37)