mexicanus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish mexicano, from Classical Nahuatl Mēxihcah. By surface analysis, Mexicum + -ānus.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /mek.siˈkaː.nus/, [mɛks̠ɪˈkäːnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /mek.siˈka.nus/, [meɡziˈkäːnus]
Adjective edit
mexicānus (feminine mexicāna, neuter mexicānum); first/second-declension adjective
- (New Latin) Mexican; from or pertaining to Mexico
- 1669, Roberto Morison, Hortus Regius Blesensis, page 201:
- […] flos Mexicanus flore fistuloso
- […] Mexican flower with fisulose blooms
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mexicānus | mexicāna | mexicānum | mexicānī | mexicānae | mexicāna | |
| Genitive | mexicānī | mexicānae | mexicānī | mexicānōrum | mexicānārum | mexicānōrum | |
| Dative | mexicānō | mexicānō | mexicānīs | ||||
| Accusative | mexicānum | mexicānam | mexicānum | mexicānōs | mexicānās | mexicāna | |
| Ablative | mexicānō | mexicānā | mexicānō | mexicānīs | |||
| Vocative | mexicāne | mexicāna | mexicānum | mexicānī | mexicānae | mexicāna | |