veterinus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Probably from vetus (“old”) + -īnus, formed at a time when vetus was still a substantive meaning year (compare Ancient Greek ἔτος (étos, “year”)). De Vaan invokes Adams's observation that veterīnus refers to horses in particular and were thus seen as "the old stock", due to horses living longer than other domesticated cattle-type animals.[1] Morphologically less likely, but semantically better is a connexion to vehō (“I transport”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯e.teˈriː.nus/, [u̯ɛt̪ɛˈriːnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ve.teˈri.nus/, [vet̪eˈriːnus]
Adjective edit
veterīnus (feminine veterīna, neuter veterīnum); first/second-declension adjective
Usage notes edit
- Can be substantivized as veterīnum (sc. animal) or veterīna (sc. bēstia). Synonymous is jūmentum.
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | veterīnus | veterīna | veterīnum | veterīnī | veterīnae | veterīna | |
Genitive | veterīnī | veterīnae | veterīnī | veterīnōrum | veterīnārum | veterīnōrum | |
Dative | veterīnō | veterīnō | veterīnīs | ||||
Accusative | veterīnum | veterīnam | veterīnum | veterīnōs | veterīnās | veterīna | |
Ablative | veterīnō | veterīnā | veterīnō | veterīnīs | |||
Vocative | veterīne | veterīna | veterīnum | veterīnī | veterīnae | veterīna |
Derived terms edit
References edit
- veterinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- veterinus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- “veterinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ 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 673