impersonalis
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From in- (“not”) + persōnālis (“personal”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /im.per.soːˈnaː.lis/, [ɪmpɛrs̠oːˈnäːlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /im.per.soˈna.lis/, [impersoˈnäːlis]
Adjective edit
impersōnālis (neuter impersōnāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (Late Latin and after, grammar) impersonal
- 4th c. CE, Donatus, Ars Minor :
- Verbo impersonali tempore praesenti legitur, praeterito imperfecto legebatur, praeterito perfecto lectum est uel lectum fuit, praeterito plusquamperfecto lectum erat uel lectum fuerat, futuro legetur.
- A verb in the impersonal is in the present tense legitur, in the preterite imperfect legēbātur, in the preterite perfect lēctum est or lēctum fuit, in the preterite pluperfect lēctum erat or lēctum fuerat, in the future legētur.
- Verbo impersonali tempore praesenti legitur, praeterito imperfecto legebatur, praeterito perfecto lectum est uel lectum fuit, praeterito plusquamperfecto lectum erat uel lectum fuerat, futuro legetur.
Declension edit
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | impersōnālis | impersōnāle | impersōnālēs | impersōnālia | |
Genitive | impersōnālis | impersōnālium | |||
Dative | impersōnālī | impersōnālibus | |||
Accusative | impersōnālem | impersōnāle | impersōnālēs impersōnālīs |
impersōnālia | |
Ablative | impersōnālī | impersōnālibus | |||
Vocative | impersōnālis | impersōnāle | impersōnālēs | impersōnālia |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: impersonal
- French: impersonnel
- Galician: impersoal
- Italian: impersonale
- Piedmontese: impërsonal
- Portuguese: impessoal
- Romanian: impersonal
- Spanish: impersonal
References edit
- “impersonalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- impersonalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.