licitus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Perfect passive participle of licet (“is allowed, permitted”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈli.ki.tus/, [ˈlʲɪkɪt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.t͡ʃi.tus/, [ˈliːt͡ʃit̪us]
Participle edit
licitus (feminine licita, neuter licitum); first/second-declension participle
- allowed, permitted, having been permitted.
- permissible
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | licitus | licita | licitum | licitī | licitae | licita | |
| Genitive | licitī | licitae | licitī | licitōrum | licitārum | licitōrum | |
| Dative | licitō | licitō | licitīs | ||||
| Accusative | licitum | licitam | licitum | licitōs | licitās | licita | |
| Ablative | licitō | licitā | licitō | licitīs | |||
| Vocative | licite | licita | licitum | licitī | licitae | licita | |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: licit
- French: licite
- Italian: lecito
- Spanish: lícito
- Portuguese: lícito
- Romanian: licit
- Sicilian: lìcitu
References edit
- “licitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “licitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- licitus 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)
- licitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.