exiguus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From exig(ō) (“to demand”) + -uus.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ekˈsi.ɡu.us/, [ɛkˈs̠ɪɡuʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈsi.ɡu.us/, [eɡˈziːɡuːs]
Adjective edit
exiguus (feminine exigua, neuter exiguum); first/second-declension adjective
- strict, exact
- paltry, inadequate, small, scanty, slight, little
- Synonyms: parvus, brevis
- Antonym: adaequātus
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.211–212:
- “Fēmina, quae nostrīs errāns in fīnibus urbem
exiguam pretiō posuit [...].”- “A woman, astray, who planted her little town along our shores for a price [...].”
(A resentful King Iarbas mocks Queen Dido who purchased the land to found Carthage instead of taking it by force.)
- “A woman, astray, who planted her little town along our shores for a price [...].”
- “Fēmina, quae nostrīs errāns in fīnibus urbem
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | exiguus | exigua | exiguum | exiguī | exiguae | exigua | |
Genitive | exiguī | exiguae | exiguī | exiguōrum | exiguārum | exiguōrum | |
Dative | exiguō | exiguō | exiguīs | ||||
Accusative | exiguum | exiguam | exiguum | exiguōs | exiguās | exigua | |
Ablative | exiguō | exiguā | exiguō | exiguīs | |||
Vocative | exigue | exigua | exiguum | exiguī | exiguae | exigua |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Noun edit
exiguus m (genitive exiguī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | exiguus | exiguī |
Genitive | exiguī | exiguōrum |
Dative | exiguō | exiguīs |
Accusative | exiguum | exiguōs |
Ablative | exiguō | exiguīs |
Vocative | exigue | exiguī |
Related terms edit
See also edit
References edit
- “exiguus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exiguus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exiguus 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)
- exiguus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- for a short time: brevis or exigui temporis
- to start from small beginnings: ab exiguis initiis proficisci
- little money: pecunia exigua or tenuis
- a small force: exiguae copiae (Fam. 3. 3. 2)
- (ambiguous) for a short time: ad exiguum tempus
- (ambiguous) to incur debts on a large scale: grande, magnum (opp. exiguum) aes alienum conflare
- for a short time: brevis or exigui temporis