pensilis
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom pēns- (“suspended, weighed”) (perfect passive participial stem of pendō (“to weigh out”); see also pendeō (“hang”)) + -ilis (suffix forming adjectives).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpen.si.lis/, [ˈpẽːs̠ɪlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpen.si.lis/, [ˈpɛnsilis]
Adjective
editpēnsilis (neuter pēnsile); third-declension two-termination adjective
Declension
editThird-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | pēnsilis | pēnsile | pēnsilēs | pēnsilia | |
Genitive | pēnsilis | pēnsilium | |||
Dative | pēnsilī | pēnsilibus | |||
Accusative | pēnsilem | pēnsile | pēnsilēs pēnsilīs |
pēnsilia | |
Ablative | pēnsilī | pēnsilibus | |||
Vocative | pēnsilis | pēnsile | pēnsilēs | pēnsilia |
Descendants
edit- Franco-Provençal: peil
- Italian: pesolo
- → English: pensile (learned)
- → Italian: pensile (learned)
- → Portuguese: pênsil (learned)
- → Proto-West Germanic: *pēsal, *pīsilā (see there for further descendants)
References
edit- “pensilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pensilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pensilis 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)
- pensilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.