philosophicus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek φιλοσοφικός (philosophikós), from φιλοσοφία (philosophía, “love of knowledge”); equivalent to philosophia + -icus.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pʰi.loˈso.pʰi.kus/, [pʰɪɫ̪ɔˈs̠ɔpʰɪkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fi.loˈso.fi.kus/, [filoˈs̬ɔːfikus]
Adjective edit
philosophicus (feminine philosophica, neuter philosophicum, adverb philosophicē); first/second-declension adjective
- philosophical
- 1731, Johann Jakob Brucker, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
- Otium Vindelicum sive Meletematum Historico-philosophicorum Triga
- Augsburg Idleness, or, a Triga of Historico-Philosophical Essays
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | philosophicus | philosophica | philosophicum | philosophicī | philosophicae | philosophica | |
| Genitive | philosophicī | philosophicae | philosophicī | philosophicōrum | philosophicārum | philosophicōrum | |
| Dative | philosophicō | philosophicō | philosophicīs | ||||
| Accusative | philosophicum | philosophicam | philosophicum | philosophicōs | philosophicās | philosophica | |
| Ablative | philosophicō | philosophicā | philosophicō | philosophicīs | |||
| Vocative | philosophice | philosophica | philosophicum | philosophicī | philosophicae | philosophica | |
Descendants edit
- Asturian: filosóficu
- Catalan: filosòfic
- French: philosophique
- Galician: filosófico
- Italian: filosofico
- Portuguese: filosófico
- Romanian: filozofic
- Spanish: filosófico
References edit
- “philosophicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- philosophicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.