appellativus
Latin
Etymology
From appellō (“to address as”) + -īvus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ap.pɛl.laːˈtiː.wʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ap.pel.laˈt̪iː.vus]
Adjective
appellātīvus (feminine appellātīva, neuter appellātīvum); first/second-declension adjective
- (grammar) appellative, belonging to a species
- Antonym: prōprius
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | appellātīvus | appellātīva | appellātīvum | appellātīvī | appellātīvae | appellātīva | |
| genitive | appellātīvī | appellātīvae | appellātīvī | appellātīvōrum | appellātīvārum | appellātīvōrum | |
| dative | appellātīvō | appellātīvae | appellātīvō | appellātīvīs | |||
| accusative | appellātīvum | appellātīvam | appellātīvum | appellātīvōs | appellātīvās | appellātīva | |
| ablative | appellātīvō | appellātīvā | appellātīvō | appellātīvīs | |||
| vocative | appellātīve | appellātīva | appellātīvum | appellātīvī | appellātīvae | appellātīva | |
Descendants
- English: appellative
- French: appellatif
- Italian: appellativo
- Portuguese: apelativo
- Romanian: apelativ
- Spanish: apelativo
References
- “appellātīvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- appellativus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.