provocativus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From prōvocō (“to call forth; provoke”) + -īvus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /proː.u̯o.kaːˈtiː.u̯us/, [proːu̯ɔkäːˈt̪iːu̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pro.vo.kaˈti.vus/, [provokäˈt̪iːvus]
Adjective
[edit]prōvocātīvus (feminine prōvocātīva, neuter prōvocātīvum); first/second-declension adjective
- elicited (called forth)
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | prōvocātīvus | prōvocātīva | prōvocātīvum | prōvocātīvī | prōvocātīvae | prōvocātīva | |
Genitive | prōvocātīvī | prōvocātīvae | prōvocātīvī | prōvocātīvōrum | prōvocātīvārum | prōvocātīvōrum | |
Dative | prōvocātīvō | prōvocātīvō | prōvocātīvīs | ||||
Accusative | prōvocātīvum | prōvocātīvam | prōvocātīvum | prōvocātīvōs | prōvocātīvās | prōvocātīva | |
Ablative | prōvocātīvō | prōvocātīvā | prōvocātīvō | prōvocātīvīs | |||
Vocative | prōvocātīve | prōvocātīva | prōvocātīvum | prōvocātīvī | prōvocātīvae | prōvocātīva |
Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: provocatiu
- English: provocative
- Middle French: provocatif
- Portuguese: provocativo
- Spanish: provocativo
References
[edit]- “provocativus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- provocativus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.