Hortensius

See also: hortensius

Latin

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /horˈten.si.us/, [hɔrˈt̪ẽːs̠iʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /orˈten.si.us/, [orˈt̪ɛnsius]

Proper noun

Hortēnsius m sg (genitive Hortēnsiī or Hortēnsī); second declension

1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
   1. Quintus Hortensius Hortalus, a Roman orator
      • 1880, Henry James Nicoll, “Miscellaneous”, in Great Scholars. Buchanan, Bentley, Porson, Parr and Others., Edinburgh: Macniven & Wallace, page 204:

        He is described as having spoken for nearly an hour with great confidence in a highly declamatory tone, and with studied action, impressing all present who had ever heard of Cicero or Hortensius with the belief that he had worked himself up into the notion of being one or both of them for the occasion.

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Hortēnsius
Genitive	Hortēnsiī Hortēnsī1
Dative	Hortēnsiō
Accusative	Hortēnsium
Ablative	Hortēnsiō
Vocative	Hortēnsī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

• Hortēnsia
• Hortēnsiānus

Adjective

Hortēnsius (feminine Hortēnsia, neuter Hortēnsium); first/second-declension adjective

1. of or pertaining to the gens Hortensia.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	Hortēnsius	Hortēnsia	Hortēnsium		Hortēnsiī	Hortēnsiae	Hortēnsia
Genitive	Hortēnsiī	Hortēnsiae	Hortēnsiī		Hortēnsiōrum	Hortēnsiārum	Hortēnsiōrum
Dative	Hortēnsiō		Hortēnsiō		Hortēnsiīs
Accusative	Hortēnsium	Hortēnsiam	Hortēnsium		Hortēnsiōs	Hortēnsiās	Hortēnsia
Ablative	Hortēnsiō	Hortēnsiā	Hortēnsiō		Hortēnsiīs
Vocative	Hortēnsie	Hortēnsia	Hortēnsium		Hortēnsiī	Hortēnsiae	Hortēnsia

References

• “Hortensius2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Hortensius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.