ceterus
LatinEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- caeterus (nonstandard)
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱe- (“here”) + contrastive *-(e)teros. Confer with citer. See also cis, hic.
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkeː.te.rus/, [ˈkeː.t̪ɛ.ɾʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.te.rus/, [ˈt͡ʃɛː.t̪ɛ.rus]
AdjectiveEdit
cēterus (feminine cētera, neuter cēterum); first/second-declension adjective (rarely used in nominative masculine singular)
DeclensionEdit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | cēterus | cētera | cēterum | cēterī | cēterae | cētera | |
Genitive | cēterī | cēterae | cēterī | cēterōrum | cēterārum | cēterōrum | |
Dative | cēterō | cēterō | cēterīs | ||||
Accusative | cēterum | cēteram | cēterum | cēterōs | cēterās | cētera | |
Ablative | cēterō | cēterā | cēterō | cēterīs | |||
Vocative | cētere | cētera | cēterum | cēterī | cēterae | cētera |
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ceterus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ceterus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ceterus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) as regards the rest; otherwise: ceteris rebus (not cetera)
- (ambiguous) to isolate a witness: aliquem a ceteris separare et in arcam conicere ne quis cum eo colloqui possit (Mil. 22. 60)
- (ambiguous) as regards the rest; otherwise: ceteris rebus (not cetera)
- Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag