tantus
Latin
Etymology
From tam.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈtan.tus/, [ˈt̪än̪t̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtan.tus/, [ˈt̪än̪t̪us]
Adjective
tantus (feminine tanta, neuter tantum); first/second-declension adjective
Usage notes
- Being naturally adjective, tantus was then used substantively as tantum (frequently with genitive) to mean "so much of", "so many of"; as tantī (pretiī) to mean "so high (a price)"; adverbially as tantum to mean "so much", "to such degree" (cf. tam); as tantō to mean "by so much". For all these quantus has its coordinate functions.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | tantus | tanta | tantum | tantī | tantae | tanta | |
Genitive | tantī | tantae | tantī | tantōrum | tantārum | tantōrum | |
Dative | tantō | tantō | tantīs | ||||
Accusative | tantum | tantam | tantum | tantōs | tantās | tanta | |
Ablative | tantō | tantā | tantō | tantīs | |||
Vocative | tante | tanta | tantum | tantī | tantae | tanta |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: tant
- French: tant
- Friulian: tant
- English: tantamount
- Italian: tanto
References
- “tantus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tantus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tantus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the frost set in so severely that..: tanta vis frigoris insecuta est, ut
- under such unfavourable circumstances: in tanta rerum (temporum) iniquitate
- he had such an extraordinary memory that..: memoria tanta fuit, ut
- (ambiguous) this much is certain: hoc (not tantum) certum est
- (ambiguous) to take only enough food to support life: tantum cibi et potionis adhibere quantum satis est
- (ambiguous) I will only say this much..: tantum or unum illud or hoc dico
- the frost set in so severely that..: tanta vis frigoris insecuta est, ut