audax
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin audāx, via Italian.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
audax (plural audaxes)
Derived terms edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin audāx.
Noun edit
audax m (invariable)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.daːks/, [ˈäu̯d̪äːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯.daks/, [ˈäːu̯d̪äks]
Adjective edit
audāx (genitive audācis, comparative audācior, superlative audācissimus, adverb audāciter or audācter); third-declension one-termination adjective
Usage notes edit
Audax can mean daring in two senses: courageous, spirited and foolhardy, presumptuous, rash.
Declension edit
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | audāx | audācēs | audācia | ||
Genitive | audācis | audācium | |||
Dative | audācī | audācibus | |||
Accusative | audācem | audāx | audācēs | audācia | |
Ablative | audācī | audācibus | |||
Vocative | audāx | audācēs | audācia |
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
- audācia
- audācior
- audācissimus
- audāciter
- audācter
- audāculus
Descendants edit
References edit
- “audax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “audax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- audax in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- audax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette