terrenus
Latin
Etymology
terra (“earth”) + -nus (suffix forming adjectives)
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /terˈreː.nus/, [t̪ɛrˈreːnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /terˈre.nus/, [t̪erˈrɛːnus]
Adjective
terrēnus (feminine terrēna, neuter terrēnum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | terrēnus | terrēna | terrēnum | terrēnī | terrēnae | terrēna | |
Genitive | terrēnī | terrēnae | terrēnī | terrēnōrum | terrēnārum | terrēnōrum | |
Dative | terrēnō | terrēnō | terrēnīs | ||||
Accusative | terrēnum | terrēnam | terrēnum | terrēnōs | terrēnās | terrēna | |
Ablative | terrēnō | terrēnā | terrēnō | terrēnīs | |||
Vocative | terrēne | terrēna | terrēnum | terrēnī | terrēnae | terrēna |
Derived terms
- terrēna
- terrēnitās (Mediaeval Latin)
- terrēnum
Descendants
References
- “terrēnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “terrenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- terrenus 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)
- terrēnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, pages 1,560–1.
- “terrēnus” on page 1,928 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “terrenus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1,024/1