pestilens

Latin

Etymology 1

Probably a back-formation from pestilentus, from pestis (“disease, plague; pest; destruction”).

Adjective

pestilēns (genitive pestilentis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. pestilential, infected, unhealthy
2. noxious, destructive, pestilent

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	pestilēns			pestilentēs	pestilentia
Genitive	pestilentis			pestilentium
Dative	pestilentī			pestilentibus
Accusative	pestilentem	pestilēns		pestilentēs	pestilentia
Ablative	pestilentī			pestilentibus
Vocative	pestilēns			pestilentēs	pestilentia

Derived terms

• pestilentiōsus

Descendants

• Catalan: pestilent
• Italian: pestilente
• Portuguese: pestilente
• Spanish: pestilente

Etymology 2

From pestilēns (“noxious, pestilent”).

Noun

pestilēns m (genitive pestilentis); third declension

1. a pestilent or noxious man

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pestilēns	pestilentēs
Genitive	pestilentis	pestilentum
Dative	pestilentī	pestilentibus
Accusative	pestilentem	pestilentēs
Ablative	pestilente	pestilentibus
Vocative	pestilēns	pestilentēs

Related terms

• pestilentia
• pestis

References

• “pestilens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pestilens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pestilens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) the plague breaks out in the city: pestilentia (not pestis) in urbem (populum) invadit