longinquus
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom long(us) (“long, far”) + (h)inc (“hence”) + -uus. Compare propinquus.
Or the ending may come from some Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo- seen in Ancient Greek ἀλλοδ-απός (allod-após), ποδ-απός (pod-após) (their first parts here correspond to Latin aliud, quod) etc. See also Proto-Germanic *-ungō.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫɔŋˈɡɪŋ.kʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [lon̠ʲˈd͡ʒiŋ.kʷus]
Adjective
editlonginquus (feminine longinqua, neuter longinquum, comparative longinquior, adverb longinquē or longinquō); first/second-declension adjective
- long, extensive; far off, distant, remote
- living far off, foreign, strange
- prolonged, continued, lasting, tedious, long
- old, ancient
- far-fetched, remote
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | longinquus | longinqua | longinquum | longinquī | longinquae | longinqua | |
genitive | longinquī | longinquae | longinquī | longinquōrum | longinquārum | longinquōrum | |
dative | longinquō | longinquae | longinquō | longinquīs | |||
accusative | longinquum | longinquam | longinquum | longinquōs | longinquās | longinqua | |
ablative | longinquō | longinquā | longinquō | longinquīs | |||
vocative | longinque | longinqua | longinquum | longinquī | longinquae | longinqua |
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 24
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “longinquus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 406
Further reading
edit- “longinquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “longinquus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- longinquus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- distant nations: longinquae nationes
- distant nations: longinquae nationes