agrestis

Latin

Etymology

For *agrestris, from ager (“field, farm”) +‎ -estris (“located, dwelling in”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈɡres.tis/, [äˈɡrɛs̠t̪ɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈɡres.tis/, [äˈɡrɛst̪is]

Adjective

agrestis (neuter agreste); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. Of or pertaining to land, fields or the countryside; rural, rustic, wild.
2. Clownish, rude, uncultivated, coarse, savage, barbarous; brutish, wild.

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	agrestis	agreste		agrestēs	agrestia
Genitive	agrestis			agrestium
Dative	agrestī			agrestibus
Accusative	agrestem	agreste		agrestēs agrestīs	agrestia
Ablative	agrestī			agrestibus
Vocative	agrestis	agreste		agrestēs	agrestia

Synonyms

• (rural): rūsticus

Derived terms

• semiagrestis
• subagrestis

 

Related terms

Related terms

• ager
• agrālis
• agrāria
• agrārius
• agrāticum
• agricola
• agricultiō
• agricultor
• agricultūra
• agrimensor
• agripeta
• agrōsus

Descendants

• English: agrestic
• French: agreste
• Italian: agreste
• → Old Polish: agrest (learned)
  • Polish: agrest
• Portuguese: agreste
• Sardinian: aresti
• Spanish: agreste

References

• “agrestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “agrestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• agrestis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Palmer, L.R. (1906) The Latin Language, London, Faber and Faber