reciprocus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Possibly from a phrase such as *reque proque (“back and forth, to and fro”), from re- (“back”), prō (“forwards”) and -que (“and”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /reˈki.pro.kus/, [rɛˈkɪprɔkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /reˈt͡ʃi.pro.kus/, [reˈt͡ʃiːprokus]
Adjective edit
reciprocus (feminine reciproca, neuter reciprocum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | reciprocus | reciproca | reciprocum | reciprocī | reciprocae | reciproca | |
| Genitive | reciprocī | reciprocae | reciprocī | reciprocōrum | reciprocārum | reciprocōrum | |
| Dative | reciprocō | reciprocō | reciprocīs | ||||
| Accusative | reciprocum | reciprocam | reciprocum | reciprocōs | reciprocās | reciproca | |
| Ablative | reciprocō | reciprocā | reciprocō | reciprocīs | |||
| Vocative | reciproce | reciproca | reciprocum | reciprocī | reciprocae | reciproca | |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: recíproc
- French: réciproque
- Galician: recíproco
- → German: reziprok
- Italian: reciproco
- Piedmontese: ressìproch
- Portuguese: recíproco
- Romanian: reciproc
- Spanish: recíproco
References edit
- “reciprocus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “reciprocus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- reciprocus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 516