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Hortensius

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Hortēnsius m sg (genitive Hortēnsiī or Hortēnsī); second declension

  1. a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
    1. Quintus Hortensius Hortalus, a Roman orator
      • 1880, Henry James Nicoll, “Miscellaneous”, in Great Scholars. Buchanan, Bentley, Porson, Parr and Others., Edinburgh: Macniven & Wallace, page 204:
        He is described as having spoken for nearly an hour with great confidence in a highly declamatory tone, and with studied action, impressing all present who had ever heard of Cicero or Hortensius with the belief that he had worked himself up into the notion of being one or both of them for the occasion.

Declension

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Second-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Hortēnsius
genitive Hortēnsiī
Hortēnsī1
dative Hortēnsiō
accusative Hortēnsium
ablative Hortēnsiō
vocative Hortēnsī

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

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Adjective

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Hortēnsius (feminine Hortēnsia, neuter Hortēnsium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. of or pertaining to the gens Hortensia.

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

References

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  • Hortensius2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Hortensius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.