turpis
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to turn”) (with the word interpreted as "turning away" > "repelling" > "disgusting"), and compared with Ancient Greek τρέπω (trépō, “to turn, divert”), Sanskrit त्रपते (trapate, “to be ashamed”). De Vaan is skeptical of the semantics of this derivation, and prefers, albeit with trepidation, to compare the word with torpeō (“to be stiff”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtur.pis/, [ˈt̪ʊrpɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtur.pis/, [ˈt̪urpis]
Adjective edit
turpis (neuter turpe, comparative turpior, superlative turpissimus, adverb turpiter); third-declension two-termination adjective
- ugly, unsightly; foul, filthy
- Synonym: foedus
- (of sound) cacophonous, disagreeable
- (figuratively) base, infamous, scandalous, dishonorable, shameful, disgraceful, unseemly, vile
Declension edit
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | turpis | turpe | turpēs | turpia | |
Genitive | turpis | turpium | |||
Dative | turpī | turpibus | |||
Accusative | turpem | turpe | turpēs turpīs |
turpia | |
Ablative | turpī | turpibus | |||
Vocative | turpis | turpe | turpēs | turpia |
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
Descendants edit
- Balkan Romance:
- → Albanian: turp
- Italo-Romance:
- >? Gallurese: tulpi
- Padanian:
- Romansch: tuorp
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *exturpiāre
- Italian: storpiare, stroppiare (Old Lucchese)
- → French: estropier
- → German: struppieren (regional)
- → Portuguese: estropiar
- → Spanish: estropear
- Piedmontese: stropiè
- Romansch: strupiar, strupchiar, strupchier, strupchá
- Italian: storpiare, stroppiare (Old Lucchese)
- Borrowings:
References edit
- “turpis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “turpis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- turpis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a virtuous (immoral) life: vita honesta (turpis)
- to follow virtue; to flee from vice: honesta expetere; turpia fugere
- a virtuous (immoral) life: vita honesta (turpis)
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “tŭrpis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 13: To–Tyrus, page 432
- Wagner, Max Leopold (1960–1964) “túrpe”, in Dizionario etimologico sardo, Heidelberg
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 635