occidentalis

Latin

Etymology

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Latin occidēns

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin occidentālis

From occidēns (“west”) + -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔk.kɪ.dɛnˈtaː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ot.t͡ʃi.denˈtaː.lis]

Adjective

occidentālis (neuter occidentāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. western, westerly

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	occidentālis	occidentāle		occidentālēs	occidentālia
genitive	occidentālis			occidentālium
dative	occidentālī			occidentālibus
accusative	occidentālem	occidentāle		occidentālīs occidentālēs	occidentālia
ablative	occidentālī			occidentālibus
vocative	occidentālis	occidentāle		occidentālēs	occidentālia

Antonyms

• orientālis

Coordinate terms

• borealis
• australis

Descendants

• Catalan: occidental
• English: occidental
• French: occidental
• German: okzidental
• Italian: occidentale
• Portuguese: ocidental
• Romanian: occidental
• Sicilian: accidintali
• Spanish: occidental

References

• “occidentalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “occidentalis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.