hemisphaerium
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἡμισφαίριον (hēmisphaírion).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [heː.mɪsˈpʰae̯.ri.ũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [e.misˈfɛː.ri.um]
Noun
hēmisphaerium n (genitive hēmisphaeriī or hēmisphaerī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | hēmisphaerium | hēmisphaeria |
| genitive | hēmisphaeriī hēmisphaerī1 |
hēmisphaeriōrum |
| dative | hēmisphaeriō | hēmisphaeriīs |
| accusative | hēmisphaerium | hēmisphaeria |
| ablative | hēmisphaeriō | hēmisphaeriīs |
| vocative | hēmisphaerium | hēmisphaeria |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- → Catalan: hemisferi
- → Dutch: hemisfeer
- → German: Hemisphäre
- → Italian: emisfero
- → Old French: emisphere
- → English: hemisphere
- → Welsh: hemisffer
- → French: hémisphère, émisphère (obsolete)
- → Romanian: emisferă
- → English: hemisphere
- → Portuguese: hemisfério
References
- “hemisphaerium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "hemisphaerium", 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)
- hemisphaerium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.