rapidus
Esperanto
editVerb
editrapidus
- conditional of rapidi
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom rapiō (“snatch”) + -idus.[1] For the meaning change confer Irish sciobtha (“quick”) from Irish sciob (“to snatch”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈra.pi.dus/, [ˈräpɪd̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈra.pi.dus/, [ˈräːpid̪us]
Adjective
editrapidus (feminine rapida, neuter rapidum, comparative rapidior, superlative rapidissimus, adverb rapidē); first/second-declension adjective
- rapid, quick, swift
- fierce, fiery, blazing, white-hot, consuming
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.42–43:
- “Ipsa Iovis rapidum iaculāta ē nūbibus ignem,
disiēcitque ratēs ēvertitque aequora ventīs.”- “[Pallas] by herself had hurled Jove’s consuming fire from the clouds: [she] both destroyed the ships and upturned the level seas with gales.”
(Juno, speaking in soliloquy, envies the ability of Pallas/Athena/Minerva to use Jupiter’s lightning.)
- “[Pallas] by herself had hurled Jove’s consuming fire from the clouds: [she] both destroyed the ships and upturned the level seas with gales.”
- “Ipsa Iovis rapidum iaculāta ē nūbibus ignem,
- seizing
- (figuratively) hasty, hurried
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | rapidus | rapida | rapidum | rapidī | rapidae | rapida | |
| Genitive | rapidī | rapidae | rapidī | rapidōrum | rapidārum | rapidōrum | |
| Dative | rapidō | rapidō | rapidīs | ||||
| Accusative | rapidum | rapidam | rapidum | rapidōs | rapidās | rapida | |
| Ablative | rapidō | rapidā | rapidō | rapidīs | |||
| Vocative | rapide | rapida | rapidum | rapidī | rapidae | rapida | |
Derived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “rapĭdus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 529
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “rapĭdus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 66
- ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “rapio”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 564a
Further reading
edit- “rapidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rapidus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rapidus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- rapidus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016