archangelus
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀρχάγγελος (arkhángelos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [arˈkʰaŋ.ɡɛ.ɫʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [arˈkan̠ʲ.d͡ʒe.lus]
Noun
archangelus m (genitive archangelī); second declension
- an archangel
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | archangelus | archangelī |
| genitive | archangelī | archangelōrum |
| dative | archangelō | archangelīs |
| accusative | archangelum | archangelōs |
| ablative | archangelō | archangelīs |
| vocative | archangele | archangelī |
Related terms
- angelus
- archangelicus
Descendants
- Asturian: arcánxel
- Catalan: arcàngel
- Old French: archangle
- Ido: arkianjelo
- Italian: arcangelo
- Old Galician-Portuguese: archangeo
- Spanish: arcángel
- → Proto-Brythonic: *arxangel (see there for further descendants)
- → Czech: archanděl
- → Danish: ærkeengel
- → English: archangel
- Tok Pisin: akanggelo
- → Finnish: arkkienkeli
- → Hungarian: arkangyal
- → Icelandic: erkiengill
- → Old Irish: arc(h)aingeal (see there for further descendants)
- → Polish: archanioł
- → Serbo-Croatian: arhanđel, arhanđeo
- → Swedish: ärkeängel
- → Tagalog: arkanghel
References
- “archangelus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- archangelus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.