peculiaris

Latin

Etymology

From pecūlium +‎ -āris.

Pronunciation

Adjective

pecūliāris (neuter pecūliāre, adverb pecūliāriter); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. private
  2. personal
  3. peculiar, specific
  4. singular, exceptional

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative pecūliāris pecūliāre pecūliārēs pecūliāria
genitive pecūliāris pecūliārium
dative pecūliārī pecūliāribus
accusative pecūliārem pecūliāre pecūliārēs
pecūliārīs 		pecūliāria
ablative pecūliārī pecūliāribus
vocative pecūliāris pecūliāre pecūliārēs pecūliāria

Descendants

  • Catalan: peculiar
  • English: peculiar
  • Galician: peculiar
  • Italian: peculiare
  • Portuguese: peculiar
  • Spanish: peculiar

References

  • “peculiaris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “peculiaris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • peculiaris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.