alternus

alternus

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /alˈternus/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ernus
  • Syllabification: al‧ter‧nus

Verb

alternus

  1. conditional of alterni

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos
Proto-Italic *aljos
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Italic *-teros
Proto-Italic *aliteros
Latin alter
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin alternus

    From alter (“other”) + -nus.

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    alternus (feminine alterna, neuter alternum); first/second-declension adjective

    1. alternate (one after the other), successive
    2. interchangeable
    3. mutual, reciprocal

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative alternus alterna alternum alternī alternae alterna
    genitive alternī alternae alternī alternōrum alternārum alternōrum
    dative alternō alternae alternō alternīs
    accusative alternum alternam alternum alternōs alternās alterna
    ablative alternō alternā alternō alternīs
    vocative alterne alterna alternum alternī alternae alterna

    Descendants

    • Catalan: altern
    • English: altern
    • Spanish: alterno

    References

    • “alternus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “alternus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “alternus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • every other day: alternis diebus
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