proficuus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From proficere.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /proˈfi.ku.us/, [prɔˈfɪkuʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /proˈfi.ku.us/, [proˈfiːkuːs]
Adjective edit
proficuus (feminine proficua, neuter proficuum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | proficuus | proficua | proficuum | proficuī | proficuae | proficua | |
| Genitive | proficuī | proficuae | proficuī | proficuōrum | proficuārum | proficuōrum | |
| Dative | proficuō | proficuō | proficuīs | ||||
| Accusative | proficuum | proficuam | proficuum | proficuōs | proficuās | proficua | |
| Ablative | proficuō | proficuā | proficuō | proficuīs | |||
| Vocative | proficue | proficua | proficuum | proficuī | proficuae | proficua | |
Descendants edit
- → English: proficuous
- Italian: proficuo
- Portuguese: profícuo
References edit
- “proficuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- proficuus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Karl Ernst Georges, Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (1913/1918; reprint Darmstadt, 1998), vol. 2, column 1965. [1]