multitudo
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From multus (“much, many”) + -tūdō.
PronunciationEdit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /mul.tiˈtuː.doː/, [mʊɫ̪t̪ɪˈt̪uːd̪oː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /mul.tiˈtu.do/, [mul̪t̪iˈt̪uːd̪o]
NounEdit
multitūdō f (genitive multitūdinis); third declension
- A great number; multitude, numerousness.
- (of people) A great number of people, crowd, mob, throng, multitude.
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | multitūdō | multitūdinēs |
Genitive | multitūdinis | multitūdinum |
Dative | multitūdinī | multitūdinibus |
Accusative | multitūdinem | multitūdinēs |
Ablative | multitūdine | multitūdinibus |
Vocative | multitūdō | multitūdinēs |
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → English: multitude
- → French: multitude
- → Galician: multitude
- → Portuguese: multidão, multitude
- → Romanian: multitudine
- → Spanish: multitud
- Italian: moltitudine
- Spanish: muchedumbre
ReferencesEdit
- “multitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “multitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- multitudo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- multitudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a crowd throngs around some one: multitudo circumfunditur alicui
- to have power over the people by trading on their religious scruples: religione obstrictos habere multitudinis animos (Liv. 6. 1. 10)
- to settle a large number of people in a country: multitudinem in agris collocare
- to leave a matter to be decided by popular vote: multitudinis suffragiis rem permittere
- government by the mob: multitudinis dominatus or imperium
- to allay the excitement of the mob: concitatam multitudinem reprimere
- to be crushed by numerous imposts: tributorum multitudine premi
- to be surrounded by the superior force of the enemy: multitudine hostium cingi
- a crowd throngs around some one: multitudo circumfunditur alicui