declivis

From dē- + clīvus (“slope”) + -is (adjective-forming suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈkliː.wɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [deˈkliː.vis]

dēclīvis (neuter dēclīve, comparative dēclīvior); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. sloping or shelving (downwards)
2. descending, downhill
3. falling (stars)

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• dēclīvirōstris
• indēclīvis

• dēclīnō

• → English: declivous
• → French: déclive
• → Portuguese: declive
• → Spanish: declive

• “declivis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “declivis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “declivis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a gentle ascent: collis leniter ab infimo acclivis (opp. leniter a summo declivis)