archangelus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀρχάγγελος (arkhángelos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /arˈkʰan.ɡe.lus/, [ärˈkʰäŋɡɛɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /arˈkan.d͡ʒe.lus/, [ärˈkän̠ʲd͡ʒelus]

Noun

archangelus m (genitive archangelī); second declension

1. an archangel

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	archangelus	archangelī
Genitive	archangelī	archangelōrum
Dative	archangelō	archangelīs
Accusative	archangelum	archangelōs
Ablative	archangelō	archangelīs
Vocative	archangele	archangelī

Related terms

• angelus
• archangelicus

Descendants

• Asturian: arcánxel
• Catalan: arcàngel
• Old French: archangle
  • French: archange
  • Norman: archange
• Ido: arkianjelo
• Italian: arcangelo
• Old Galician-Portuguese: archangeo
  • Galician: arcanxo
  • Portuguese: arcanjo
  • → Mirandese: arcanjo
• Spanish: arcángel
• → Proto-Brythonic: *arxangel (see there for further descendants)
• → Czech: archanděl
• → Danish: ærkeengel
• → English: archangel
  • Tok Pisin: akanggelo
• → Finnish: arkkienkeli
• → Hungarian: arkangyal
• → Icelandic: erkiengill
• → Old Irish: arc(h)aingeal (see there for further descendants)
• → Polish: archanioł
• → Serbo-Croatian: arhanđel, arhanđeo
• → Swedish: ärkeängel
• → Tagalog: arkanghel

References

• “archangelus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• archangelus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.