rhetoricus
Latin
Alternative forms
- rethoricus (Late Latin, Vulgate)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ῥητορικός (rhētorikós).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [rʰeːˈtɔ.rɪ.kʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [reˈt̪ɔː.ri.kus]
Adjective
rhētoricus (feminine rhētorica, neuter rhētoricum, comparative rhētoricōteros); first/second-declension adjective
- rhetorical, of or pertaining to rhetoric or a rhetoritician
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | rhētoricus | rhētorica | rhētoricum | rhētoricī | rhētoricae | rhētorica | |
| genitive | rhētoricī | rhētoricae | rhētoricī | rhētoricōrum | rhētoricārum | rhētoricōrum | |
| dative | rhētoricō | rhētoricae | rhētoricō | rhētoricīs | |||
| accusative | rhētoricum | rhētoricam | rhētoricum | rhētoricōs | rhētoricās | rhētorica | |
| ablative | rhētoricō | rhētoricā | rhētoricō | rhētoricīs | |||
| vocative | rhētorice | rhētorica | rhētoricum | rhētoricī | rhētoricae | rhētorica | |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “rhetoricus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rhetoricus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rhetoricus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to add rhetorical, dramatic embellishments to a subject: rhetorice, tragice ornare aliquid (Brut. 11. 43)
- (ambiguous) to add rhetorical, dramatic embellishments to a subject: rhetorice, tragice ornare aliquid (Brut. 11. 43)