Martius
Latin
editAlternative forms
edit- mārtius (alternative case form)
Etymology
editFrom Mārs + -ius. As a noun, ellipsis of Mārtius mēnsis m (“month of March”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmaːr.ti.us/, [ˈmäːrt̪iʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmar.t͡si.us/, [ˈmärt̪͡s̪ius]
Adjective
editMārtius (feminine Mārtia, neuter Mārtium); first/second-declension adjective
- of or belonging to Mars, the god of war; sacred to Mars
- (figuratively) warlike, martial
- of or belonging to the planet Mars
- of or pertaining to the month of March, of March, the first month of the traditional Roman year or third month of the Gregorian calendar
Usage notes
editIn Classical Latin, month names were regularly used as adjectives, generally modifying a case-form of mēnsis m sg (“month”) or of one of the nouns used in the Roman calendar to refer to specific days of the month from which other days were counted: Calendae f pl (“calends”), Nōnae f pl (“nones”), Īdūs f pl (“ides”). However, the masculine noun mēnsis could be omitted by ellipsis, so the masculine singular forms of month names eventually came to be used as proper nouns.[1]
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | Mārtius | Mārtia | Mārtium | Mārtiī | Mārtiae | Mārtia | |
Genitive | Mārtiī | Mārtiae | Mārtiī | Mārtiōrum | Mārtiārum | Mārtiōrum | |
Dative | Mārtiō | Mārtiō | Mārtiīs | ||||
Accusative | Mārtium | Mārtiam | Mārtium | Mārtiōs | Mārtiās | Mārtia | |
Ablative | Mārtiō | Mārtiā | Mārtiō | Mārtiīs | |||
Vocative | Mārtie | Mārtia | Mārtium | Mārtiī | Mārtiae | Mārtia |
Related terms
editProper noun
editMārtius m (genitive Mārtiī or Mārtī); second declension
- The month of March.
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | Mārtius | Mārtiī |
Genitive | Mārtiī Mārtī1 |
Mārtiōrum |
Dative | Mārtiō | Mārtiīs |
Accusative | Mārtium | Mārtiōs |
Ablative | Mārtiō | Mārtiīs |
Vocative | Mārtī | Mārtiī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
edit- Balkan Romance:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
Borrowings:
Unsorted borrowings:
- → Alabama: Màchka
- → Amharic: ማርች (marč)
- → Arabic: مارس (mars)
- → Azerbaijani: mart
- → Danish: marts
- → Dhivehi: މާރޗް (mārc)
- → Faroese: mars
- → Fijian: Maji
- → Gilbertese: Mati
- → Greenlandic: marsi
- → Hebrew: מרס (mars)
- → Hungarian: március
- → Ilocano: marso
- → Icelandic: mars
- → Kannada: ಮಾರ್ಚಿ (mārci)
- → Kongo: marisi
- → Kyrgyz: март (mart)
- → Latvian: marts
- → Lingala: mársi
- → Livonian: märts
- → Low German: März
- → Macedonian: март (mart)
- → Maltese: Marzu
- → Marathi: मार्च (mārca)
- → North Frisian: marts, märts
- → Norwegian: mars
- → Ossetian: мартъи (mart’i)
- → Odia: ମାର୍ଚ୍ଚ (mārcca)
- → Pashto: مارچ (mārč)
- → Polish: marzec
- → Samoan: mati
- → Saterland Frisian: Meerte
- → Serbo-Croatian: март / mart
- → Sinhalese: මාර්තු (mārtu)
- → Slovak: marec
- → Slovene: marec
- → Swedish: mars
- → Tahitian: māti
- → Tamil: மார்ச் (mārc)
- → Tatar: mart, март (mart)
- → Telugu: మార్చి (mārci)
- → Turkish: mart
- → Upper Sorbian: měrc
- → Urdu: مارچ (mārc)
- → Uzbek: mart
- → West Frisian: maart
- → Zazaki: mert
See also
edit- Roman calendar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
edit- ^ Karl Gottlob Zumpt (1853) Leonhard Schmitz, Charles Anthon, transl., A Grammar of the Latin Language, 3rd edition, pages 31, 85
Further reading
edit- “Martius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Martius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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