caelestis
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From caelum (“heaven, sky”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kae̯ˈles.tis/, [käe̯ˈɫ̪ɛs̠t̪ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃeˈles.tis/, [t͡ʃeˈlɛst̪is]
Adjective edit
caelestis (neuter caeleste, comparative caelestior, superlative caelestissimus); third-declension two-termination adjective
- celestial, of or in the heavens, heavenly
- (figuratively) divine, of the gods
- (figuratively) magnificent, preeminent, god-like
- Synonyms: caeles, caelestīnus
Declension edit
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | caelestis | caeleste | caelestēs | caelestia | |
Genitive | caelestis caelestae |
caelestium caelestūm | |||
Dative | caelestī | caelestibus | |||
Accusative | caelestem | caeleste | caelestēs caelestīs |
caelestia | |
Ablative | caelestī caeleste |
caelestibus | |||
Vocative | caelestis | caeleste | caelestēs | caelestia |
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- > Corsican: celestu, celeste, cilestu (inherited)
- >? Galician: xistra
- > Istriot: cialieste (inherited)
- > Catalan: celístia (inherited)
Borrowings:
- → Catalan: celeste (learned)
- → Galician: celeste (learned)
- → Gallurese: cilesti (learned)
- → Italian: celeste (learned)
- → Ligurian: celeste (learned)
- → Old French: celeste (learned)
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: celeste (learned)
- Portuguese: celeste
- Sardinian:
- → Spanish: celeste (learned)
- → Swedish: celest (learned)
- → Venetian: celeste, zheleste
Noun edit
caelestis m or f (genitive caelestis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | caelestis | caelestēs |
Genitive | caelestis | caelestium |
Dative | caelestī | caelestibus |
Accusative | caelestem | caelestēs caelestīs |
Ablative | caeleste | caelestibus |
Vocative | caelestis | caelestēs |
Further reading edit
- “caelestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caelestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caelestis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 238/3.
- caelestis in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, columns 900–901
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (1) the heavenly bodies, (2) celestial phenomena: caelestia
- astronomy: astrologia (pure Latin sidera, caelestia)
- an astronomer: spectator siderum, rerum caelestium or astrologus
- heavenly things; earthly things: supera et caelestia; humana et citerioria
- (1) the heavenly bodies, (2) celestial phenomena: caelestia