menstrualis
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From mēnstruus (“of or pertaining to a month, monthly”) + -ālis, from mēnsis (“month”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /men.struˈaː.lis/, [mẽːs̠t̪ruˈäːlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /men.struˈa.lis/, [menst̪ruˈäːlis]
Adjective edit
mēnstruālis (neuter mēnstruāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- Monthly, every month, for a month.
- (post-Augustan) Of or pertaining to the monthly courses of women; in the process of menstruation.
Declension edit
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mēnstruālis | mēnstruāle | mēnstruālēs | mēnstruālia | |
| Genitive | mēnstruālis | mēnstruālium | |||
| Dative | mēnstruālī | mēnstruālibus | |||
| Accusative | mēnstruālem | mēnstruāle | mēnstruālēs mēnstruālīs |
mēnstruālia | |
| Ablative | mēnstruālī | mēnstruālibus | |||
| Vocative | mēnstruālis | mēnstruāle | mēnstruālēs | mēnstruālia | |
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Descendants edit
References edit
- “menstrualis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- menstrualis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.