suavis
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *swāwis, from Proto-Italic *suādwus, from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”).[1][2][3] The extension of the u-stem into an i-stem is regular (compare brevis, tenuis) and must have occurred before the loss of *-d- in medial *-dw-.[3]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsʷaː.wɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsʷaː.vis]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [suˈaː.wɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [suˈaː.vis]
- Note: the first u is found scanned as a consonant glide in Plautus, Terence and classical poetry, but sparely also as a vowel in some Late Latin poetry of the 5th and 6th centuries, with Romance descendants typically reflecting the latter. However, compare the early attestation of sŭādent in Lucretius.
Adjective
[edit]suāvis (neuter suāve, comparative suāvior, superlative suāvissimus, adverb suāve or suāviter); third-declension two-termination adjective
Declension
[edit]Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | suāvis | suāve | suāvēs | suāvia | |
| genitive | suāvis | suāvium | |||
| dative | suāvī | suāvibus | |||
| accusative | suāvem | suāve | suāvīs suāvēs |
suāvia | |
| ablative | suāvī | suāvibus | |||
| vocative | suāvis | suāve | suāvēs | suāvia | |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1039f.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “suāvis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 594
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 185.2, page 180
Further reading
[edit]- “suavis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “suavis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “suavis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Categories:
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sweh₂d-
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin third declension adjectives
- Latin third declension adjectives of two terminations
- la:Taste
- la:Smell