positivus
Latin
Etymology
From pōnō (“to put, place”) + -īvus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /po.siˈtiː.u̯us/, [pɔs̠ɪˈt̪iːu̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /po.siˈti.vus/, [pos̬iˈt̪iːvus]
Adjective
positīvus (feminine positīva, neuter positīvum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | positīvus | positīva | positīvum | positīvī | positīvae | positīva | |
| Genitive | positīvī | positīvae | positīvī | positīvōrum | positīvārum | positīvōrum | |
| Dative | positīvō | positīvō | positīvīs | ||||
| Accusative | positīvum | positīvam | positīvum | positīvōs | positīvās | positīva | |
| Ablative | positīvō | positīvā | positīvō | positīvīs | |||
| Vocative | positīve | positīva | positīvum | positīvī | positīvae | positīva | |
Descendants
- Catalan: positiu
- French: positif
- Galician: positivo
- Italian: positivo
- Occitan: positiu
- Portuguese: positivo
- Spanish: positivo
References
- “positivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- positivus 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)
- positivus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.