commenticius

commenticius

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin commentus
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -īcus
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -īcius
Latin commentīcius

    From commentus (“devised”) + -īcius.

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    commentīcius (feminine commentīcia, neuter commentīcium); first/second-declension adjective

    1. invented, devised, fabricated
    2. imaginary
    3. fictitious

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative commentīcius commentīcia commentīcium commentīciī commentīciae commentīcia
    genitive commentīciī commentīciae commentīciī commentīciōrum commentīciārum commentīciōrum
    dative commentīciō commentīciae commentīciō commentīciīs
    accusative commentīcium commentīciam commentīcium commentīciōs commentīciās commentīcia
    ablative commentīciō commentīciā commentīciō commentīciīs
    vocative commentīcie commentīcia commentīcium commentīciī commentīciae commentīcia

    Descendants

    • → English: commentitious
    • → Italian: commentizio
    • → Portuguese: comentício
    • → Spanish: comenticio

    References

    • “commenticius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “commenticius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “commenticius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • Plato's ideal republic: illa civitas Platonis commenticia
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