paganismus

See also: Paganismus

Latin

Etymology

From pāgānus (“rural, rustic; unlearned; heathen, pagan”, from pāgus (“area outside of a city, countryside”)) +‎ -ismus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paː.ɡaːˈnis.mus/, [päːɡäːˈnɪs̠mʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.ɡaˈnis.mus/, [päɡäˈnizmus]

Noun

pāgānismus m (genitive pāgānismī); second declension

1. (Ecclesiastical Latin) heathenry, paganism, heathenism
2. (rare, poetic) heresy, detachment from God

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pāgānismus	pāgānismī
genitive	pāgānismī	pāgānismōrum
dative	pāgānismō	pāgānismīs
accusative	pāgānismum	pāgānismōs
ablative	pāgānismō	pāgānismīs
vocative	pāgānisme	pāgānismī

Synonyms

• (paganism): pāgānitās

Related terms

• pāgānicus
• pāgānitās
• pāgānus
• pāgātim
• pāgus

Descendants

• English: paganism, paynim
• French: paganisme
• Italian: paganesimo, paganesmo, paganismo
• Polish: poganizm
• Portuguese: paganismo
• Romanian: păgânism
• Sicilian: pajanìsimu, paganìsimu, pavanìsimu
• Spanish: paganismo

References

• “paganismus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• paganismus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.