vegetabilis
Latin
Etymology
From vegetāre, vegetō (“to animate, to quicken”) + -bilis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯e.ɡeˈtaː.bi.lis/, [u̯ɛɡɛˈt̪äːbɪlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ve.d͡ʒeˈta.bi.lis/, [ved͡ʒeˈt̪äːbilis]
Adjective
vegetābilis (neuter vegetābile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- animating, enlivening, vivifying
- able to produce and support growth, vegetative
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | vegetābilis | vegetābile | vegetābilēs | vegetābilia | |
| Genitive | vegetābilis | vegetābilium | |||
| Dative | vegetābilī | vegetābilibus | |||
| Accusative | vegetābilem | vegetābile | vegetābilēs vegetābilīs |
vegetābilia | |
| Ablative | vegetābilī | vegetābilibus | |||
| Vocative | vegetābilis | vegetābile | vegetābilēs | vegetābilia | |
Related terms
Descendants
- English: vegetable
- Italian: vegetabile
References
- “vegetabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vegetabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.