subtilis
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /subˈtiː.lis/, [s̠ʊpˈt̪iːlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /subˈti.lis/, [subˈt̪iːlis]
Adjective edit
subtīlis (neuter subtīle, comparative subtīlior, superlative subtīlissimus, adverb subtīliter); third-declension two-termination adjective
Declension edit
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | subtīlis | subtīle | subtīlēs | subtīlia | |
| Genitive | subtīlis | subtīlium | |||
| Dative | subtīlī | subtīlibus | |||
| Accusative | subtīlem | subtīle | subtīlēs subtīlīs |
subtīlia | |
| Ablative | subtīlī | subtīlibus | |||
| Vocative | subtīlis | subtīle | subtīlēs | subtīlia | |
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
Descendants edit
- Aromanian: suptsãri, subtsãre
- Catalan: sotil, subtil
- Dutch: subtiel
- → English: subtle
- French: subtil, subtile
- Friulian: sutîl
- Galician: sutil
- German: subtil
- Italian: sottile
- Megleno-Romanian: subtzǫri
- Old French: sotil, soutil
- Occitan: sotil
- Piedmontese: sutil
- Polish: subtelny
- Portuguese: subtil, sutil
- Romanian: subțire
- Sicilian: suttili
- Old Spanish: sotil
- Swedish: subtil
- Venetian: sutìl, sutìlo, sotìl
References edit
- “subtilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “subtilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- subtilis 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)
- subtilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- sound knowledge; scholarship: doctrina exquisita, subtilis, elegans
- good taste; delicate perception: iudicium subtile, elegans, exquisitum, intellegens
- the plain style: verborum tenuitias, oratio subtilis
- sound knowledge; scholarship: doctrina exquisita, subtilis, elegans