proletarius

Latin

Etymology

From prōlēs (“offspring”) +‎ -ārius with an altered stem prōlēt-.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [proː.ɫeːˈtaː.ri.ʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pro.leˈt̪aː.ri.us]

Adjective

prōlētārius (feminine prōlētāria, neuter prōlētārium); first/second-declension adjective

belonging to the lowest class of citizens, whose only contribution to the State was their offspring

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	prōlētārius	prōlētāria	prōlētārium	prōlētāriī	prōlētāriae	prōlētāria
genitive	prōlētāriī	prōlētāriae	prōlētāriī	prōlētāriōrum	prōlētāriārum	prōlētāriōrum
dative	prōlētāriō	prōlētāriae	prōlētāriō	prōlētāriīs
accusative	prōlētārium	prōlētāriam	prōlētārium	prōlētāriōs	prōlētāriās	prōlētāria
ablative	prōlētāriō	prōlētāriā	prōlētāriō	prōlētāriīs
vocative	prōlētārie	prōlētāria	prōlētārium	prōlētāriī	prōlētāriae	prōlētāria

Antonyms

classicus

Descendants

→ Asturian: proletariu
→ Catalan: proletari
→ French: prolétaire
- → English: proletaire
- → German: Proletarier
  - → Dutch: proletariër
    - → Indonesian: proletariat
  - → Georgian: პროლეტარიატი (ṗroleṭariaṭi)
- → Romanian: proletar
- → French: prolétariat
  - → Arabic: بْرُولِيتَارِيَا (brūlītāriyā)
  - → Belarusian: пралетарыя́т (praljetaryját)
  - → English: proletariat
  - → German: Proletariat
    - → Japanese: プロレタリアート (puroretariāto)
  - → Polish: proletariat
  - → Romanian: proletariat
  - → Russian: пролетариа́т (proletariát)
  - → Ukrainian: пролетаріа́т (proletariát)
→ Galician: proletario
→ Georgian: პროლეტარი (ṗroleṭari)
→ Italian: proletario
→ Korean: 프롤레타리아 (peurolletaria)
→ Occitan: proletari
→ Portuguese: proletário
→ Russian: пролета́рий (proletárij)
- → Armenian: պրոլետար (proletar)
- → Azerbaijani:
  Latin script: proletar
  Cyrillic script: пролетар
- → Belarusian: пралета́р (praljetár)
- → Estonian: proletaar
- → Kazakh: пролетар (proletar)
- → Kyrgyz: пролетар (proletar)
- → Latvian: proletār
- → Lithuanian: proletar
- → Tajik: пролетар (proletar)
- → Turkmen:
  Latin script: proletar
  Cyrillic script: пролетар
- → Ukrainian: пролета́р (proletár)
- → Uzbek:
  Latin script: proletar
  Cyrillic script: пролетар (proletar)
→ Spanish: proletario

References

“proletarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“proletarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"proletarius", 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)
proletarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.