suavis
Latin
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Indo-European *swéh₂dus (“sweet”).[1][2][3] The extension of the u-stem into an i-stem is regular (compare brevis, tenuis) and must have occurred before the loss of *-d- in medial *-dw-.[3]
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsu̯aː.u̯is/, [ˈs̠u̯äːu̯ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈswa.vis/, [ˈswäːvis]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /suˈaː.u̯is/, [s̠uˈäːu̯ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /suˈa.vis/, [suˈäːvis]
- Note: the first u is found scanned as a consonant glide in Plautus, Terence and classical poetry, but sparely also as a vowel in some Late Latin poetry of the 5th and 6th centuries, with Romance descendants typically reflecting the latter. However, compare the early attestation of sŭādent in Lucretius.
Adjective
editsuāvis (neuter suāve, comparative suāvior, superlative suāvissimus, adverb suāve or suāviter); third-declension two-termination adjective
Declension
editThird-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | suāvis | suāve | suāvēs | suāvia | |
Genitive | suāvis | suāvium | |||
Dative | suāvī | suāvibus | |||
Accusative | suāvem | suāve | suāvēs suāvīs |
suāvia | |
Ablative | suāvī | suāvibus | |||
Vocative | suāvis | suāve | suāvēs | suāvia |
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- Catalan: suau
- Italian: soave, suave (archaic)
- Old French: soef
- → Middle English: suave
- English: suave
- → Middle French: suave
- French: suave
- → Portuguese: suave
- → Spanish: suave
References
edit- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “su̯ād-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1039f.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “suāvis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 594
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, § 185.2, page 180
Further reading
edit- “suavis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “suavis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- suavis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sweh₂d-
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin third declension adjectives
- Latin third declension adjectives of two terminations
- la:Taste
- la:Smell