plebeius
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɫeːˈbeː.jʊs][1][2]
- [-eː.jʊs] (as opposed to [-ɛj.jʊs]) supposed on the basis of etymology
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [pleˈbɛː.jus]
Adjective
plēbēius (feminine plēbēia, neuter plēbēium); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | plēbēius | plēbēia | plēbēium | plēbēiī | plēbēiae | plēbēia | |
| genitive | plēbēiī | plēbēiae | plēbēiī | plēbēiōrum | plēbēiārum | plēbēiōrum | |
| dative | plēbēiō | plēbēiae | plēbēiō | plēbēiīs | |||
| accusative | plēbēium | plēbēiam | plēbēium | plēbēiōs | plēbēiās | plēbēia | |
| ablative | plēbēiō | plēbēiā | plēbēiō | plēbēiīs | |||
| vocative | plēbēie | plēbēia | plēbēium | plēbēiī | plēbēiae | plēbēia | |
Noun
plēbeius m (genitive plēbeiī or plēbeī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | plēbēius | plēbēiī |
| genitive | plēbēiī plēbēī1 |
plēbēiōrum |
| dative | plēbēiō | plēbēiīs |
| accusative | plēbēium | plēbēiōs |
| ablative | plēbēiō | plēbēiīs |
| vocative | plēbēie | plēbēiī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- ^ Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 342: “plēbēs (classical plēbs, but NB the adj. plēbēius)”
- ^ Buck, Carl (1904) A grammar of Oscan and Umbrian, Ginn & Co, page 186: “-ēii̯o- (L. plebēius)”
Further reading
- “plēbēĭus (-ējus)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “plebeius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "plebeius", 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)
- plebeius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- one of the people: homo plebeius, de plebe
- one of the people: homo plebeius, de plebe
- “plēbeius” in volume 10, part 1, column 2375, line 1 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present