abstemius
Latin
Etymology
From abs- + the root of tēmētum (“any intoxicating drink”) + -ius.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [apˈsteː.mi.ʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [abˈst̪ɛː.mi.us]
Adjective
abstēmius (feminine abstēmia, neuter abstēmium); first/second-declension adjective
- abstaining from wine, abstemious; sober
- temperate, abstinent, moderate
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | abstēmius | abstēmia | abstēmium | abstēmiī | abstēmiae | abstēmia | |
| genitive | abstēmiī | abstēmiae | abstēmiī | abstēmiōrum | abstēmiārum | abstēmiōrum | |
| dative | abstēmiō | abstēmiae | abstēmiō | abstēmiīs | |||
| accusative | abstēmium | abstēmiam | abstēmium | abstēmiōs | abstēmiās | abstēmia | |
| ablative | abstēmiō | abstēmiā | abstēmiō | abstēmiīs | |||
| vocative | abstēmie | abstēmia | abstēmium | abstēmiī | abstēmiae | abstēmia | |
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: abstemi
- English: abstemious
- Galician: abstemio
- Italian: astemio
- Portuguese: abstémio
- Spanish: abstemio
References
- “abstemius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abstemius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "abstemius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- abstemius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 609