rarus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *er(e)-, *rē- (“friable, thin”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈraː.rus/, [ˈräːrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈra.rus/, [ˈräːrus]
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Adjective
rārus (feminine rāra, neuter rārum, comparative rārior, superlative rārissimus, adverb rārō or rārē); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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 |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “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]