mundus

English

Noun

mundus

1. plural of mundu

Anagrams

• dunums, musnud

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Latin

Etymology 1

Two possibilities include:

• From Etruscan 𐌌𐌖𐌈 (muθ, “pit, mundus”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *mh₂nd- (“to adorn”) and cognate with Old High German mandag (“joyful, happy, dashing”). Possibly also conflated in the sense of "clean, neat" with Proto-Indo-European *muh₂-, *mewh₂- (“to wash, wet”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmun.dus/, [ˈmʊn̪d̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmun.dus/, [ˈmun̪d̪us]

Adjective

mundus (feminine munda, neuter mundum, comparative mundior, superlative mundissimus, adverb munditer); first/second-declension adjective

1. clean, pure; neat
2. nice, fine, elegant, sophisticated
3. decorated, adorned

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	mundus	munda	mundum		mundī	mundae	munda
Genitive	mundī	mundae	mundī		mundōrum	mundārum	mundōrum
Dative	mundō		mundō		mundīs
Accusative	mundum	mundam	mundum		mundōs	mundās	munda
Ablative	mundō	mundā	mundō		mundīs
Vocative	munde	munda	mundum		mundī	mundae	munda

Antonyms

• (clean, pure): immundus

Derived terms

• munditer
• mundificō
• mundō

Etymology 2

From mundus (see above).

Noun

mundus m (genitive mundī); second declension

1. ornaments, decorations, dress (of a woman)
2. implement
3. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) the universe, the world, esp. the heavens and the heavenly bodies

   Sic enim dilexit Deus mundum ut filium suum unigenitum daret ut omnis qui credit in eum non pereat sed habeat vitam aeternam.

   For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

4. the inhabitants of the earth, mankind
5. (Medieval Latin) a century
6. (Medieval Latin) a group of people

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mundus	mundī
Genitive	mundī	mundōrum
Dative	mundō	mundīs
Accusative	mundum	mundōs
Ablative	mundō	mundīs
Vocative	munde	mundī

Derived terms

• mundānus
• mundiālis
• Anima mundī
• Stupor mundī

Descendants

Descendants

References

• “mundus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mundus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mundus 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)
• mundus 1 mundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• mundus 2 mundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the universe: rerum or mundi universitas
    
  • the perfect harmony of the universe: totius mundi convenientia et consensus
    
  • God made the world: deus mundum aedificavit, fabricatus est, effecit (not creavit)
    
  • God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum
    
  • a citizen of the world; cosmopolitan: mundanus, mundi civis et incola (Tusc. 5. 37)
    
• “mundus”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press