rarus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *er(e)-, *rē- (“friable, thin”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
rārus (feminine rāra, neuter rārum); first/second declension (comparative rarior, superlative rarissimus)
Inflection[edit]
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
nominative | rārus | rāra | rārum | rārī | rārae | rāra | |
genitive | rārī | rārae | rārī | rārōrum | rārārum | rārōrum | |
dative | rārō | rārō | rārīs | ||||
accusative | rārum | rāram | rārum | rārōs | rārās | rāra | |
ablative | rārō | rārā | rārō | rārīs | |||
vocative | rāre | rāra | rārum | rārī | rārae | rāra |
- comparative: rārior, superlative: rārissimus
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- rarus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- rarus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rarus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- preparations for war; war-material: apparatus (rare in plur.) belli
- in open order: raris ordinibus
- to fight in skirmishing order: rari dispersique pugnare (B. C. 1. 44)
- preparations for war; war-material: apparatus (rare in plur.) belli
- rarus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[2]