reciprocus

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from a phrase such as *reque proque (“back and forth, to and fro”), from re- (“back”), prō (“forwards”) and -que (“and”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /reˈki.pro.kus/, [rɛˈkɪprɔkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈt͡ʃi.pro.kus/, [reˈt͡ʃiːprokus]

Adjective

reciprocus (feminine reciproca, neuter reciprocum); first/second-declension adjective

1. back and forth
2. alternating
3. reciprocal

Declension

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

• Catalan: recíproc
• French: réciproque
• Galician: recíproco
• → German: reziprok
• Italian: reciproco
• Piedmontese: ressìproch
• Portuguese: recíproco
• Romanian: reciproc
• Spanish: recíproco

References

• “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