sexangulus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From sex (“six”) + angulus (“angled”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /sekˈsan.ɡu.lus/, [s̠ɛkˈs̠äŋɡʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sekˈsan.ɡu.lus/, [seɡˈzäŋɡulus]
Adjective edit
sexangulus (feminine sexangula, neuter sexangulum); first/second-declension adjective
- hexagonal
- 1611, Johannes Kepler, Strena seu De Niva Sexangula, title:
- De Niva Sexangula.
- On the Hexagonal Snowflake.
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | sexangulus | sexangula | sexangulum | sexangulī | sexangulae | sexangula | |
| Genitive | sexangulī | sexangulae | sexangulī | sexangulōrum | sexangulārum | sexangulōrum | |
| Dative | sexangulō | sexangulō | sexangulīs | ||||
| Accusative | sexangulum | sexangulam | sexangulum | sexangulōs | sexangulās | sexangula | |
| Ablative | sexangulō | sexangulā | sexangulō | sexangulīs | |||
| Vocative | sexangule | sexangula | sexangulum | sexangulī | sexangulae | sexangula | |
References edit
- “sexangulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sexangulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sexangulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
sexangulus in John C. Traupman, Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2007