theosophicus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
By surface analysis, theosophus + -icus.
Pronunciation edit
(Classical) IPA(key): /tʰe.oˈso.pʰi.kus/, [t̪ʰeɔˈs̠ɔpʰɪkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /te.oˈso.fi.kus/, [t̪eoˈs̬ɔːfikus]
Adjective edit
theosophicus (feminine theosophica, neuter theosophicum); first/second-declension adjective
- theological; observant or attentive to theology.
- c. 1509, Gozechinus Leodiensis, “Epistola ad Walcherum”, in Jacques Paul Migne, editor, Patrologia Latina, volume 143, Paris: Migne, published 1882, page column 887:
- […] ut quaeque vel legendo vel disputando perplexe intricata vel in theosophicis vel in sophisticis occurrissent, […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | theosophicus | theosophica | theosophicum | theosophicī | theosophicae | theosophica | |
| Genitive | theosophicī | theosophicae | theosophicī | theosophicōrum | theosophicārum | theosophicōrum | |
| Dative | theosophicō | theosophicō | theosophicīs | ||||
| Accusative | theosophicum | theosophicam | theosophicum | theosophicōs | theosophicās | theosophica | |
| Ablative | theosophicō | theosophicā | theosophicō | theosophicīs | |||
| Vocative | theosophice | theosophica | theosophicum | theosophicī | theosophicae | theosophica | |
References edit
- theosophicus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “Theosophicus”, in Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, Léopold Favre, et al. editors, Glossarium mediae et infimae latinitatis (in Latin), volume 8, ed. nova, aucta pluribus verbis aliorum scriptorum a Léopold Favre, Niort: L. Favre, 1887 [1st ed. 1678]. col. 097b. →OCLC