technicus
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin technicus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɛx.niˌkʏs/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: tech‧ni‧cus
Noun
technicus m (plural technici)
- a technician, a technical expert
Descendants
- → Indonesian: teknisi
Latin
Etymology
Ancient Greek τέχνη (tékhnē, “skill, art”) + -icus
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtɛkʰ.nɪ.kʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt̪ɛk.ni.kus]
Adjective
technicus (feminine technica, neuter technicum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | technicus | technica | technicum | technicī | technicae | technica | |
| genitive | technicī | technicae | technicī | technicōrum | technicārum | technicōrum | |
| dative | technicō | technicae | technicō | technicīs | |||
| accusative | technicum | technicam | technicum | technicōs | technicās | technica | |
| ablative | technicō | technicā | technicō | technicīs | |||
| vocative | technice | technica | technicum | technicī | technicae | technica | |
Descendants
- Catalan: tècnic
- French: technique
- Galician: técnico
- Italian: tecnico
- Ladin: tecnich
- Portuguese: técnico
- Romanian: tehnic
- Spanish: técnico
References
- “technicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- technicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.