ruralis

Latin

Etymology

From rūs, rūris (“countryside”) +‎ -ālis.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ruːˈraː.lɪs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ruˈraː.lis]

Adjective

rūrālis (neuter rūrāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

Of or pertaining to the countryside, rural, rustic.

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	rūrālis	rūrāle		rūrālēs	rūrālia
genitive	rūrālis			rūrālium
dative	rūrālī			rūrālibus
accusative	rūrālem	rūrāle		rūrālēs rūrālīs	rūrālia
ablative	rūrālī			rūrālibus
vocative	rūrālis	rūrāle		rūrālēs	rūrālia

Derived terms

rūrāliter

Related terms

Descendants

→ Catalan: rural
→ Corsican: rurale
→ Friulian: rurâl
→ Galician: rural
→ German: rural
→ Italian: rurale
→ Norwegian Bokmål: rural
→ Norwegian Nynorsk: rural
→ Old French: rural
- French: rural
- → English: rural
→ Piedmontese: rural
→ Portuguese: rural
→ Romanian: rural
→ Spanish: rural

References

“ruralis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ruralis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.