sospes

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *swespats, a Proto-Italic (but post-PIE) compound consisting of an element from *swé and spes.[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

sospes (genitive sospitis); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. saving, delivering
  2. safe and sound, unharmed
    Synonyms: saluber, salvus, sanus, integer, intactus, validus, incolumis, sollus, innoxius
    Antonyms: aeger, īnfirmus, languidus
    • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 3.14:
      virginum mātrēs iuvenumque nūper / sospitum.
      • 2004 translation by Niall Rudd
        the mothers of the young women and men recently saved from death.

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective (non-i-stem).

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative sospes sospitēs sospita
genitive sospitis sospitum
dative sospitī sospitibus
accusative sospitem sospes sospitēs sospita
ablative sospite sospitibus
vocative sospes sospitēs sospita

Derived terms

References

  • “sospes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sospes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "sospes", 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)
  • sospes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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