localis

Latin

Etymology

From locus +‎ -ālis.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫɔˈkaː.lɪs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [loˈkaː.lis]

Adjective

locālis (neuter locāle, adverb locāliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

Belong to a place; local

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	locālis	locāle		locālēs	locālia
genitive	locālis			locālium
dative	locālī			locālibus
accusative	locālem	locāle		locālēs locālīs	locālia
ablative	locālī			locālibus
vocative	locālis	locāle		locālēs	locālia

Related terms

locus

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: locale (“room”)
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: logar
  - Fala: lugal
  - Galician: lugar
  - Portuguese: lugar
- Old Leonese: lugar, logar, llogar
  - Asturian: llugar
  - Leonese: llugar, llougar
  - Mirandese: lhugar
- Old Spanish: logar
  - Spanish: lugar
Borrowings:
- → Asturian: llocal
- → Catalan: local
- → English: local, locale
- → French: local
  - → Danish: lokale
  - → Romanian: local
  - → Turkish: lokal
- → Galician: local
- → Hungarian: lokális
- → Italian: locale (“local”)
- → Mirandese: lhocal
- → Piedmontese: local
- → Portuguese: local
- → Spanish: local

References

“localis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
localis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.