rhetoricus
Latin
Alternative forms
- rethoricus (Late Latin, Vulgate)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ῥητορικός (rhētorikós).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /reːˈto.ri.kus/, [reːˈt̪ɔrɪkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /reˈto.ri.kus/, [reˈt̪ɔːrikus]
Adjective
rhētoricus (feminine rhētorica, neuter rhētoricum, comparative rhētoricōteros); first/second-declension adjective
- rhetorical, or or pertaining to rhetoric or a rhetoritician
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | rhētoricus | rhētorica | rhētoricum | rhētoricī | rhētoricae | rhētorica | |
| Genitive | rhētoricī | rhētoricae | rhētoricī | rhētoricōrum | rhētoricārum | rhētoricōrum | |
| Dative | rhētoricō | rhētoricō | rhētoricīs | ||||
| Accusative | rhētoricum | rhētoricam | rhētoricum | rhētoricōs | rhētoricās | rhētorica | |
| Ablative | rhētoricō | rhētoricā | rhētoricō | rhētoricīs | |||
| Vocative | rhētorice | rhētorica | rhētoricum | rhētoricī | rhētoricae | rhētorica | |
Descendants
References
- “rhetoricus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rhetoricus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rhetoricus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to add rhetorical, dramatic embellishments to a subject: rhetorice, tragice ornare aliquid (Brut. 11. 43)
- (ambiguous) to add rhetorical, dramatic embellishments to a subject: rhetorice, tragice ornare aliquid (Brut. 11. 43)
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