surdus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“ringing, whistling”). See also Latin susurrus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsʊr.dʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsur.dus]
Adjective
[edit]surdus (feminine surda, neuter surdum); first/second-declension adjective
- deaf
- 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 463:
- DĀVUS: Utinam aut hic surdus aut haec mūta facta sit!
- DAVUS: If only this [man] were deaf or this [woman] were mute!
(The meaning in its comical context: if only he hadn’t listened or she hadn’t said anything.)
- DAVUS: If only this [man] were deaf or this [woman] were mute!
- DĀVUS: Utinam aut hic surdus aut haec mūta facta sit!
- inattentive, unresponsive
- silent, noiseless, still
- indistinct, dull, faint
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | surdus | surda | surdum | surdī | surdae | surda | |
| genitive | surdī | surdae | surdī | surdōrum | surdārum | surdōrum | |
| dative | surdō | surdae | surdō | surdīs | |||
| accusative | surdum | surdam | surdum | surdōs | surdās | surda | |
| ablative | surdō | surdā | surdō | surdīs | |||
| vocative | surde | surda | surdum | surdī | surdae | surda | |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Albanian: shurdh
- Aragonese: xordo
- Aromanian: surdu
- Asturian: sordu, xordu
- Catalan: sord
- Corsican: sordu
- Dalmatian: suard
- Emilian: såurd
- English: surd
- Esperanto: surda
- Franco-Provençal: sôrd
- French: sourd, sourde, sourdine
- Friulian: sort, sord
- Istriot: surdo
- Italian: sordo
- Neapolitan: surdo
- Occitan: sord
- Old Galician-Portuguese: sordo
- Romanian: surd
- Sardinian: suldu, surdu
- Sicilian: surdu
- Spanish: sordo
- Venetan: sordo
References
[edit]- “surdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “surdus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "surdus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “surdus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.