sobrius
Latin
Etymology
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(deprecated template usage) From sē- (“without”) + ebrius (“intoxicated”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsoː.bri.us/, [ˈs̠oːbriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈso.bri.us/, [ˈsɔːbrius]
Adjective
sōbrius (feminine sōbria, neuter sōbrium); first/second-declension adjective
- sober (not drunk)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | sōbrius | sōbria | sōbrium | sōbriī | sōbriae | sōbria | |
| Genitive | sōbriī | sōbriae | sōbriī | sōbriōrum | sōbriārum | sōbriōrum | |
| Dative | sōbriō | sōbriō | sōbriīs | ||||
| Accusative | sōbrium | sōbriam | sōbrium | sōbriōs | sōbriās | sōbria | |
| Ablative | sōbriō | sōbriā | sōbriō | sōbriīs | |||
| Vocative | sōbrie | sōbria | sōbrium | sōbriī | sōbriae | sōbria | |
Descendants
- Catalan: sobri
- French: sobre
- Italian: sobrio
- Portuguese: sóbrio
- Romanian: sobru
- Spanish: sobrio
- → English: sober
- → Dutch: sober
- → Proto-West Germanic: *sūbrī (see there for further descendants)
References
- “sobrius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sobrius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sobrius 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)
- sobrius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.