abstemius
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From abs- + the root of tēmētum (“any intoxicating drink”) + -ius.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /abˈsteː.mi.us/, [äpˈs̠t̪eːmiʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /abˈste.mi.us/, [äbˈst̪ɛːmius]
Adjective edit
abstēmius (feminine abstēmia, neuter abstēmium); first/second-declension adjective
- abstaining from wine, abstemious; sober
- temperate, abstinent, moderate
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | abstēmius | abstēmia | abstēmium | abstēmiī | abstēmiae | abstēmia | |
| Genitive | abstēmiī | abstēmiae | abstēmiī | abstēmiōrum | abstēmiārum | abstēmiōrum | |
| Dative | abstēmiō | abstēmiō | abstēmiīs | ||||
| Accusative | abstēmium | abstēmiam | abstēmium | abstēmiōs | abstēmiās | abstēmia | |
| Ablative | abstēmiō | abstēmiā | abstēmiō | abstēmiīs | |||
| Vocative | abstēmie | abstēmia | abstēmium | abstēmiī | abstēmiae | abstēmia | |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Catalan: abstemi
- English: abstemious
- Galician: abstemio
- Italian: astemio
- Portuguese: abstémio
- Spanish: abstemio
References edit
- “abstemius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “abstemius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- abstemius 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)
- abstemius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 609