paganus

Latin

Etymology

From pāgus (“area outside of a city, countryside”) +‎ -ānus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paːˈɡaː.nus/, [päːˈɡäːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈɡa.nus/, [päˈɡäːnus]

Adjective

pāgānus (feminine pāgāna, neuter pāgānum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the countryside, rural, rustic.
2. (by extension) rustic, unlearned
3. (Medieval Latin, Christianity) pagan, heathen

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	pāgānus	pāgāna	pāgānum		pāgānī	pāgānae	pāgāna
Genitive	pāgānī	pāgānae	pāgānī		pāgānōrum	pāgānārum	pāgānōrum
Dative	pāgānō		pāgānō		pāgānīs
Accusative	pāgānum	pāgānam	pāgānum		pāgānōs	pāgānās	pāgāna
Ablative	pāgānō	pāgānā	pāgānō		pāgānīs
Vocative	pāgāne	pāgāna	pāgānum		pāgānī	pāgānae	pāgāna

Derived terms

• pāgānismus
• pāgānitās
• sēmipāgānus

Related terms

• pāgānicus
• pāgātim
• pāgus

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: paien
• Aromanian: pãngãn
• Asturian: paganu
• Catalan: pagà
• French: païen
• Friulian: paian, pajan
• Italian: pagano
• Megleno-Romanian: păgǫn
• Occitan: pagan
• Old Galician-Portuguese: pagão
  • Galician: pagán
  • Portuguese: pagão
• Romanian: păgân
• Sicilian: paganu
• Spanish: pagano
• Venetian: pagàn

Borrowings into other languages:

• → Albanian: pëganë, pëgërë, pagan
• → Czech: pohan
  • → Polish: poganin
• → English: pagan
• → Estonian: pagan
• → Irish: págán
• → Old Church Slavonic: поганъ (poganŭ)
• → Old East Slavic: поганъ (poganŭ)
  • Russian: поганый (poganyj)
  • Ukrainian: поганий (pohanyj)
• → Serbo-Croatian: pogan
  • → Hungarian: pogány
  • → Romanian: pogan
• → Slovene: pohan
• → Turkish: pagan
• → Welsh: pagan

Noun

pāgānus m (genitive pāgānī); second declension

1. villager, countryman
2. civilian
3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) heathen, pagan

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pāgānus	pāgānī
Genitive	pāgānī	pāgānōrum
Dative	pāgānō	pāgānīs
Accusative	pāgānum	pāgānōs
Ablative	pāgānō	pāgānīs
Vocative	pāgāne	pāgānī

References

• “paganus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “paganus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• paganus 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)
• paganus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “paganus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers