tectonicus
Latin
Etymology
Etymology tree
Borrowed from Ancient Greek τεκτονῐκός (tektonĭkós).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tɛkˈtɔ.nɪ.kʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [tekˈtɔː.ni.kus]
Adjective
tectonicus (feminine tectonica, neuter tectonicum); first/second-declension adjective
- (relational) building; architectural, tectonic, architectonic
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | tectonicus | tectonica | tectonicum | tectonicī | tectonicae | tectonica | |
| genitive | tectonicī | tectonicae | tectonicī | tectonicōrum | tectonicārum | tectonicōrum | |
| dative | tectonicō | tectonicae | tectonicō | tectonicīs | |||
| accusative | tectonicum | tectonicam | tectonicum | tectonicōs | tectonicās | tectonica | |
| ablative | tectonicō | tectonicā | tectonicō | tectonicīs | |||
| vocative | tectonice | tectonica | tectonicum | tectonicī | tectonicae | tectonica | |
Descendants
Descendants
- → Catalan: tectònic (learned)
- → Dutch: tektonisch
- → English: tectonic
- → French: tectonique (learned)
- → German: tektonisch
- → Italian: tettonico (learned)
- → Norwegian Bokmål: tektonisk
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: tektonisk
- → Polish: tektonika
- → Portuguese: tectônico (learned)
- → Romanian: tectonic
- → Serbo-Croatian: tektònika
- → Spanish: tectónico (learned)
- → Swedish: tektonisk
References
- “tectonicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tectonicus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.