spontaneus

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From sponte +‎ -āneus.

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sponˈtaː.ne.us/, [spɔnˈtaː.ne.ʊs]

AdjectiveEdit

spontāneus (feminine spontānea, neuter spontāneum); first/second declension

1. voluntary, spontaneous

InflectionEdit

First/second declension.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	spontāneus	spontānea	spontāneum		spontāneī	spontāneae	spontānea
genitive	spontāneī	spontāneae	spontāneī		spontāneōrum	spontāneārum	spontāneōrum
dative	spontāneō		spontāneō		spontāneīs
accusative	spontāneum	spontāneam	spontāneum		spontāneōs	spontāneās	spontānea
ablative	spontāneō	spontāneā	spontāneō		spontāneīs
vocative	spontānee	spontānea	spontāneum		spontāneī	spontāneae	spontānea

DescendantsEdit

• Asturian: espontaneu
• Catalan: espontani
• English: spontaneous
• Esperanto: spontana
• French: spontané
• Galician: espontáneo
• German: spontan

• Hungarian: spontán
• Italian: spontaneo
• Portuguese: espontâneo
• Romanian: spontan
• Serbo-Croatian: spȍntān, спонтан
• Spanish: espontáneo
• Swedish: spontan

ReferencesEdit

• spontaneus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “spontaneus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• spontaneus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016