adulter
See also: adùlter
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
adulter (plural adulters) (now rare)
- An adulterer, especially a male one.
Derived termsEdit
VerbEdit
adulter (third-person singular simple present adulters, present participle adultering, simple past and past participle adultered) (now rare)
- To commit adultery.
- To pollute something; to adulterate.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
adulterate — see adulterate
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
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AdjectiveEdit
adulter
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From ad (“to, towards”) + alter (“the other, second”).
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈdul.ter/, [äˈd̪ʊɫ̪t̪ɛr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈdul.ter/, [äˈd̪ul̪t̪er]
AdjectiveEdit
adulter (feminine adultera, neuter adulterum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- adulterous, unfaithful, unchaste
- (by extension) counterfeit, false
DeclensionEdit
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | adulter | adultera | adulterum | adulterī | adulterae | adultera | |
Genitive | adulterī | adulterae | adulterī | adulterōrum | adulterārum | adulterōrum | |
Dative | adulterō | adulterō | adulterīs | ||||
Accusative | adulterum | adulteram | adulterum | adulterōs | adulterās | adultera | |
Ablative | adulterō | adulterā | adulterō | adulterīs | |||
Vocative | adulter | adultera | adulterum | adulterī | adulterae | adultera |
SynonymsEdit
- (unchaste): adulterīnus, cinaedicus, immundus, impudīcus, impūrus, incestus
AntonymsEdit
- (unchaste): castus, immaculātus, incorruptus, intemerātus, pudīcus, pūrus
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
NounEdit
adulter m (genitive adulterī); second declension
- adulterer or adulteress, paramour
- bastard
- Vulgate, Hebrews 12.8:
- adulteri et non filii estis.
- You are bastards and not sons.
- adulteri et non filii estis.
DeclensionEdit
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -er).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | adulter | adulterī |
Genitive | adulterī | adulterōrum |
Dative | adulterō | adulterīs |
Accusative | adulterum | adulterōs |
Ablative | adulterō | adulterīs |
Vocative | adulter | adulterī |
SynonymsEdit
- (bastard): nothus
DescendantsEdit
- Catalan: adúlter
- English: advoutrer
- French: adultère
- Old French: avuiltre
- Old Irish: adaltair
- Portuguese: adúltero
- Spanish: adúltero
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “adulter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “adulter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- adulter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
adulter n (plural adultere)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of adulter
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) adulter | adulterul | (niște) adultere | adulterele |
genitive/dative | (unui) adulter | adulterului | (unor) adultere | adulterelor |
vocative | adulterule | adulterelor |