Islamus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, literally submission, surrender).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Islāmus m sg (genitive Islāmī); second declension

  1. (Renaissance Latin) Islam
    • 1591, Johannes Löwenklau, André Wechel, Historiae musulmanae Turcorum, de monumentis ipsorum exscriptae libri XVIII.[1], →OCLC, page 46:
      Quinque turrium deſcenderunt; vbi paullo inferiu eſt alia quædam porta, quam Islami noſtri, ait auctor, diuino beneficio apertã inuenerunt.
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Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Islāmus
genitive Islāmī
dative Islāmō
accusative Islāmum
ablative Islāmō
vocative Islāme