nutabundus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
nūtō (“sway, stagger, totter”) + -bundus
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /nuː.taːˈbun.dus/, [nuːt̪äːˈbʊn̪d̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /nu.taˈbun.dus/, [nut̪äˈbun̪d̪us]
Adjective edit
nūtābundus (feminine nūtābunda, neuter nūtābundum); first/second-declension adjective (post-classical)
- tottering, staggering
- Synonym: quassābundus
- vacillating, uncertain
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | nūtābundus | nūtābunda | nūtābundum | nūtābundī | nūtābundae | nūtābunda | |
| Genitive | nūtābundī | nūtābundae | nūtābundī | nūtābundōrum | nūtābundārum | nūtābundōrum | |
| Dative | nūtābundō | nūtābundō | nūtābundīs | ||||
| Accusative | nūtābundum | nūtābundam | nūtābundum | nūtābundōs | nūtābundās | nūtābunda | |
| Ablative | nūtābundō | nūtābundā | nūtābundō | nūtābundīs | |||
| Vocative | nūtābunde | nūtābunda | nūtābundum | nūtābundī | nūtābundae | nūtābunda | |
References edit
- “nutabundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- nutabundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.