provocativus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From prōvocō (“to call forth; provoke”) + -īvus.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /proː.u̯o.kaːˈtiː.u̯us/, [proːu̯ɔkäːˈt̪iːu̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pro.vo.kaˈti.vus/, [provokäˈt̪iːvus]
Adjective edit
prōvocātīvus (feminine prōvocātīva, neuter prōvocātīvum); first/second-declension adjective
- elicited (called forth)
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | prōvocātīvus | prōvocātīva | prōvocātīvum | prōvocātīvī | prōvocātīvae | prōvocātīva | |
| Genitive | prōvocātīvī | prōvocātīvae | prōvocātīvī | prōvocātīvōrum | prōvocātīvārum | prōvocātīvōrum | |
| Dative | prōvocātīvō | prōvocātīvō | prōvocātīvīs | ||||
| Accusative | prōvocātīvum | prōvocātīvam | prōvocātīvum | prōvocātīvōs | prōvocātīvās | prōvocātīva | |
| Ablative | prōvocātīvō | prōvocātīvā | prōvocātīvō | prōvocātīvīs | |||
| Vocative | prōvocātīve | prōvocātīva | prōvocātīvum | prōvocātīvī | prōvocātīvae | prōvocātīva | |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: provocatiu
- English: provocative
- Middle French: provocatif
- Portuguese: provocativo
- Spanish: provocativo
References edit
- “provocativus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- provocativus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.