negativus
Latin
Etymology
From negō (“to deny, refuse”) + -īvus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ne.ɡaːˈtiː.u̯us/, [nɛɡäːˈt̪iːu̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ne.ɡaˈti.vus/, [neɡäˈt̪iːvus]
Adjective
negātīvus (feminine negātīva, neuter negātīvum); first/second-declension adjective
- denied, negative, that which denies
- (law) inhibiting
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | negātīvus | negātīva | negātīvum | negātīvī | negātīvae | negātīva | |
| Genitive | negātīvī | negātīvae | negātīvī | negātīvōrum | negātīvārum | negātīvōrum | |
| Dative | negātīvō | negātīvō | negātīvīs | ||||
| Accusative | negātīvum | negātīvam | negātīvum | negātīvōs | negātīvās | negātīva | |
| Ablative | negātīvō | negātīvā | negātīvō | negātīvīs | |||
| Vocative | negātīve | negātīva | negātīvum | negātīvī | negātīvae | negātīva | |
Synonyms
- (negative): abiūdicātīvus, abnegātīvus, abnūtīvus
Related terms
Descendants
- Asturian: negativu
- Catalan: negatiu
- → English: negative
- → French: négatif
- Galician: negativo
- Italian: negativo
- Occitan: negatiu
- Portuguese: negativo
- Spanish: negativo
Further reading
- “negativus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- negativus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.