prolixus
Latin
Etymology
From prō- (“forward, before, in front”) + *lixus (compare ēlixus); the unprefixed adjective probably descends from Proto-Italic *liksos, from Proto-Indo-European *wleykʷ- (“moist, to wet”) and originally had a sense like "fluid, flowing". Cognate with lixa and liqueō.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [proːˈlɪk.sʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [proˈlik.sus]
Adjective
prōlixus (feminine prōlixa, neuter prōlixum, comparative prōlixior, adverb prōlixē); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | prōlixus | prōlixa | prōlixum | prōlixī | prōlixae | prōlixa | |
| genitive | prōlixī | prōlixae | prōlixī | prōlixōrum | prōlixārum | prōlixōrum | |
| dative | prōlixō | prōlixae | prōlixō | prōlixīs | |||
| accusative | prōlixum | prōlixam | prōlixum | prōlixōs | prōlixās | prōlixa | |
| ablative | prōlixō | prōlixā | prōlixō | prōlixīs | |||
| vocative | prōlixe | prōlixa | prōlixum | prōlixī | prōlixae | prōlixa | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- English: prolix
- French: prolixe
- Galician: prolixo
- Italian: prolisso
- Portuguese: prolixo
- Spanish: prolijo
References
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “lixa”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 347
Further reading
- “prolixus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “prolixus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- prolixus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.