ruralis

Latin

Etymology

From rūs, rūris (“countryside”) +‎ -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ruːˈraː.lis/, [ruːˈräːlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ruˈra.lis/, [ruˈräːlis]

Adjective

rūrālis (neuter rūrāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. Of or pertaining to the countryside, rural, rustic.

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	rūrālis	rūrāle		rūrālēs	rūrālia
Genitive	rūrālis			rūrālium
Dative	rūrālī			rūrālibus
Accusative	rūrālem	rūrāle		rūrālēs rūrālīs	rūrālia
Ablative	rūrālī			rūrālibus
Vocative	rūrālis	rūrāle		rūrālēs	rūrālia

Derived terms

• rūrāliter

Related terms

• rūrātiō
• rūrestris
• rūricola
• rūricolāris
• rūrigena
• rūrō
• rūs
• rūstica
• rūsticānus
• rūsticātim
• rūsticātiō
• rūsticē
• rūsticellus
• rūsticitās
• rūsticola
• rūsticor
• rūsticula
• rūsticulus
• rūsticus

Descendants

• → Catalan: rural
• → Corsican: rurale
• → Friulian: rurâl
• → Galician: rural
• → German: rural
• → Italian: rurale
• → Norwegian Bokmål: rural
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: rural
• → Old French: rural
  • French: rural
  • → English: rural
• → Piedmontese: rural
• → Portuguese: rural
• → Romanian: rural
• → Spanish: rural

References

• “ruralis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ruralis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.