historicus

From historie +‎ -icus.

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• Hyphenation: his‧to‧ri‧cus

historicus m (plural historici)

1. historian

• geschiedkundige

• hystoricus (Medieval Latin)

From historia (“history”) + -icus (adjective-forming suffix), from Ancient Greek ἱστορικός (historikós, “exact; historical”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɪsˈtɔ.rɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [isˈt̪ɔː.ri.kus]

historicus (feminine historica, neuter historicum); first/second-declension adjective

1. historical
   • 1826, Stanislaus Julien translating Mencius as Meng Tseu, p. 46:

     Ejus stylus, tunc historicus.

     [The Spring and Autumn Annals] are written in the historical style.

First/second-declension adjective.

• historice

• “historicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “historicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• historicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • historic times: historicorum fide contestata memoria