obsoletus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect active participle of intransitive obsolēscō (“wear out, fall into disuse”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

obsolētus (feminine obsolēta, neuter obsolētum, comparative obsolētior, adverb obsolētē); first/second-declension participle

  1. old, worn out, thrown off
  2. obsolete, out-of-date
  3. common, ordinary, mean, low

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative obsolētus obsolēta obsolētum obsolētī obsolētae obsolēta
genitive obsolētī obsolētae obsolētī obsolētōrum obsolētārum obsolētōrum
dative obsolētō obsolētae obsolētō obsolētīs
accusative obsolētum obsolētam obsolētum obsolētōs obsolētās obsolēta
ablative obsolētō obsolētā obsolētō obsolētīs
vocative obsolēte obsolēta obsolētum obsolētī obsolētae obsolēta

Descendants

  • → Middle French: obsolet
  • → Asturian: obsoletu
  • → English: obsolete
  • → French: obsolète (partly)[2]
  • → Italian: obsoleto
  • → Spanish: obsoleto
  • → Galician: obsoleto
  • → Sicilian: obsoletu
  • → Portuguese: obsoleto

References

  1. ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “obsoletus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 7: N–Pas, page 286
  2. ^ ibid.

Further reading

  • “obsoletus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “obsoletus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "obsoletus", 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)
  • obsoletus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • obsolete, ambiguous expressions: prisca, obsoleta (opp. usitata), ambigua verba
    • cast-off clothing: vestitus obsoletus, tritus
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