oecumenicus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek οἰκουμενικός (oikoumenikós, “from or open to the whole world”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /oe̯.kuːˈme.ni.kus/, [oe̯kuːˈmɛnɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.kuˈme.ni.kus/, [ekuˈmɛːnikus]

Adjective

oecūmenicus (feminine oecūmenica, neuter oecūmenicum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or pertaining to whole inhabited world; ecumenical.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	oecūmenicus	oecūmenica	oecūmenicum		oecūmenicī	oecūmenicae	oecūmenica
Genitive	oecūmenicī	oecūmenicae	oecūmenicī		oecūmenicōrum	oecūmenicārum	oecūmenicōrum
Dative	oecūmenicō		oecūmenicō		oecūmenicīs
Accusative	oecūmenicum	oecūmenicam	oecūmenicum		oecūmenicōs	oecūmenicās	oecūmenica
Ablative	oecūmenicō	oecūmenicā	oecūmenicō		oecūmenicīs
Vocative	oecūmenice	oecūmenica	oecūmenicum		oecūmenicī	oecūmenicae	oecūmenica

Related terms

• oeconomia
• oeconomicus
• oeconomus

• oecūmenē
• oecus

Descendants

• English: ecumenic, ecumenical
• French: œcuménique
• Italian: ecumenico
• Polish: ekumeniczny
• Portuguese: ecuménico
• Spanish: ecuménico

References

• “oecumenicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• oecumenicus 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)