assassinus

Latin

Alternative forms

• asasīnus

Etymology

From Arabic أَسَاسِيِّين (ʔasāsiyyīn).

Noun

assassīnus m (genitive assassīnī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) assassin, professional criminal

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	assassīnus	assassīnī
Genitive	assassīnī	assassīnōrum
Dative	assassīnō	assassīnīs
Accusative	assassīnum	assassīnōs
Ablative	assassīnō	assassīnīs
Vocative	assassīne	assassīnī

References

• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “asasinus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill