mundus

English

Noun

mundus

1. plural of mundu

Anagrams

• dunums, musnud

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Latin

Etymology 1

Two possibilities include:

• From Etruscan 𐌌𐌖𐌈 (muθ, “pit, mundus”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *mh₂nd- (“to adorn”) and cognate with Old High German mandag (“joyful, happy, dashing”); an Etruscan form 𐌈𐌍𐌖𐌌 (munθ) "order, kit, ornament" is attested also. Possibly also conflated in the sense of "clean, neat" with Proto-Indo-European *muh₂-, *mewh₂- (“to wash, wet”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmun.dus/, [ˈmʊn̪.d̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmun.dus/, [ˈmun̪.d̪us]

Adjective

mundus (feminine munda, neuter mundum, comparative mundior, superlative mundissimus, adverb munditer); first/second-declension adjective

1. clean, pure; neat
2. nice, fine, elegant, sophisticated
3. decorated, adorned

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	mundus	munda	mundum		mundī	mundae	munda
Genitive	mundī	mundae	mundī		mundōrum	mundārum	mundōrum
Dative	mundō		mundō		mundīs
Accusative	mundum	mundam	mundum		mundōs	mundās	munda
Ablative	mundō	mundā	mundō		mundīs
Vocative	munde	munda	mundum		mundī	mundae	munda

Antonyms

• (clean, pure): immundus

Derived terms

• munditer
• mundificō
• mundō

Etymology 2

From mundus (adjective). In the sense “universe”, calque of Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos).

Noun

mundus m (genitive mundī); second declension

1. ornaments, decorations, dress (of a woman)
2. implement
3. universe, world, esp. the heavens and the heavenly bodies
   • 70 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 1.5:

     Vōs, ō clārissima mundī / lūmina, lābentem caelō quae dūcitis annum; /

     Oh ye, most radiant lights of the heavens, who lead the gliding year in the sky

4. mankind (inhabitants of the earth)
   • Lucan, Pharsalia 5.469-471:

     miserīque fuit spēs inrita mundī, / posse ducēs parvā campī statiōne diremptōs / admōtum damnāre nefās.

     The unfortunate world's hope turned out in vain, the hope that the leaders, separated by a small field distance, could condemn the impiety drawing near.

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Evangelium secundum Ioannem.3.16:

     Sic enim dilexit Deus mundum ut filium suum unigenitum daret, ut omnis qui credit in eum non pereat, sed habeat vitam aeternam.

     For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, so that whoever believes in him may not perish but have eternal life.

5. (Medieval Latin) century
6. (Medieval Latin) group of people

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mundus	mundī
Genitive	mundī	mundōrum
Dative	mundō	mundīs
Accusative	mundum	mundōs
Ablative	mundō	mundīs
Vocative	munde	mundī

Derived terms

• mundānus
• mundiālis
• Anima mundī
• Stupor mundī

Descendants

Descendants

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• Basque: mundu
• Corsican: munnu
• Esperanto: mondo
  • Ido: mondo
• Interlingua: mundo
• Istriot: mondo
• Italian: mondo
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: mundo
• Neapolitan: munno
• Old French: monde, mund
  • French: monde
    • Haitian Creole: mond
  • Norman: maonde
  • Walloon: monde
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: mundiu, mundu
  • Extremaduran: mundu
  • Leonese: mundiu
  • Mirandese: mundo

• Old Portuguese: mundo
  • Galician: mundo
  • Portuguese: mundo
    • Kabuverdianu: mundu
    • Papiamentu: mundu
    • Tetum: mundu
• Old Occitan: mon
  • Catalan: món
  • Occitan: mond
• Old Spanish: mundo
  • Ladino: mundo / מונדו‎
  • Spanish: mundo
    • → Tagalog: mundo
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: mond
  • Ladin: mond
  • Romansch: mund, mond, muond
• Sardinian: mundhu, mundu, munnu
• Sicilian: munnu
• Venetian: móndo

References

• mundus¹ in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mundus² in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mundus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mundus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• 1 mundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• 2 mundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the universe: rerum or mundi universitas
    
  • the perfect harmony of the universe: totius mundi convenientia et consensus
    
  • God made the world: deus mundum aedificavit, fabricatus est, effecit (not creavit)
    
  • God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum
    
  • a citizen of the world; cosmopolitan: mundanus, mundi civis et incola (Tusc. 5. 37)
    
• mundus in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) , Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press