mundus
EnglishEdit
NounEdit
mundus
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
mundus (feminine munda, neuter mundum, comparative mundior, superlative mundissimus, adverb munditer); first/second-declension adjective
DeclensionEdit
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 |
AntonymsEdit
- (clean, pure): immundus
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From mundus (adjective). In the sense “universe”, calque of Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos).
NounEdit
mundus m (genitive mundī); second declension
- ornaments, decorations, dress (of a woman)
- implement
- universe, world, esp. the heavens and the heavenly bodies
- 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.
- miserīque fuit spēs inrita mundī, / posse ducēs parvā campī statiōne diremptōs / admōtum damnāre nefās.
- 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.
- Sic enim dilexit Deus mundum ut filium suum unigenitum daret, ut omnis qui credit in eum non pereat, sed habeat vitam aeternam.
- (Medieval Latin) century
- (Medieval Latin) group of people
DeclensionEdit
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 termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Descendants
- Basque: mundu
- Corsican: munnu
- Esperanto: mondo
- Ido: mondo
- Interlingua: mundo
- Istriot: mondo
- Italian: mondo
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: mundo
- Neapolitan: munno
- Old French: monde, mund
- Old Leonese:
ReferencesEdit
- 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)
- the universe: rerum or mundi universitas
- mundus in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) , Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press