pulcher
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unknown. Possibly from earlier polcher, which according to Walde-Hoffman and Pokorny reflects Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“motley, variegated”), with dissimilation *perḱ-ro-s > *pelḱ-ro-s, which would make it cognate to Sanskrit पृश्नि (pṛ́śni). De Vaan[1] rejects that connection as both irregular and semantically incompatible/tenuous, and assigns no known etymology.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpul.kʰer/, [ˈpʊɫ̪kʰɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpul.ker/, [ˈpulker]
Audio (Classical): (file)
Adjective
pulcher (feminine pulchra, neuter pulchrum, comparative pulchrior, superlative pulcherrimus, adverb pulchrē); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | pulcher | pulchra | pulchrum | pulchrī | pulchrae | pulchra | |
| Genitive | pulchrī | pulchrae | pulchrī | pulchrōrum | pulchrārum | pulchrōrum | |
| Dative | pulchrō | pulchrō | pulchrīs | ||||
| Accusative | pulchrum | pulchram | pulchrum | pulchrōs | pulchrās | pulchra | |
| Ablative | pulchrō | pulchrā | pulchrō | pulchrīs | |||
| Vocative | pulcher | pulchra | pulchrum | pulchrī | pulchrae | pulchra | |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “pulcher”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pulcher”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pulcher in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pulcher”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pulcher”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 496
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