periodus

See also: periódus

Latin

Alternative forms

  • perihodos, perihodus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek περίοδος (períodos).

Pronunciation

Noun

periodus f (genitive periodī); second declension

  1. a complete sentence; period
  2. the circuit of the four Grecian games

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative periodus periodī
genitive periodī periodōrum
dative periodō periodīs
accusative periodum periodōs
ablative periodō periodīs
vocative periode periodī

Descendants

  • Catalan: període
  • Middle French: periode
  • Galician: período
  • German: Periodus, Periode
  • Irish: peiriad
  • Italian: periodo
  • Portuguese: período
  • Romanian: perioadă
  • Spanish: período

References

  • periodus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "periodus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • periodus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the period: ambitus, circuitus, comprehensio, continuatio (verborum, orationis), also simply periodus