pagensis

Latin

Etymology

From pagus (“district”) +‎ -ensis. Perhaps forming basis to gens for a shortened form.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /paːˈɡen.sis/, [päːˈɡẽːs̠ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈd͡ʒen.sis/, [päˈd͡ʒɛnsis]

Noun

pāgēnsis m (genitive pāgēnsis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) peasant, countryfolk

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem), with locative.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pāgēnsis	pāgēnsēs
Genitive	pāgēnsis	pāgēnsium
Dative	pāgēnsī	pāgēnsibus
Accusative	pāgēnsem	pāgēnsēs pāgēnsīs
Ablative	pāgēnse	pāgēnsibus
Vocative	pāgēnsis	pāgēnsēs
Locative	pāgēnsī pāgēnse	pāgēnsibus

Descendants

• Catalan: pagès
• Franco-Provençal: payis
• Old French: pais
  • Bourguignon: poiys
  • Middle French: pays, païs
    • French: pays
  • → Catalan: país
  • → Occitan: país
  • → Portuguese: país
    • Papiamentu: pais
  • → Spanish: país
• Friulian: paîs
• Istriot: pais
• Italian: paese
• Piedmontese: pais
• Romansch: pajais, pajis, paeis
• Sicilian: pajisi
  • → Maltese: pajjiż
• Venetian: pajès
• → Welsh: Powys
  • → English: Powys

References

• pagensis 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)