Islamus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِسْلَام (ʔislām, literally “submission, surrender”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /isˈlaː.mus/, [ɪs̠ˈɫ̪äːmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /isˈla.mus/, [izˈläːmus]

Proper noun

Islāmus m sg (genitive Islāmī); second declension

1. (Renaissance Latin) Islam
   • 1591, Johannes Löwenklau, André Wechel, Historiae musulmanae Turcorum, de monumentis ipsorum exscriptae libri XVIII.‎^[1], →OCLC, page 46:

     Quinque turrium deſcenderunt; vbi paullo inferiu eſt alia quædam porta, quam Islami noſtri, ait auctor, diuino beneficio apertã inuenerunt.

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Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Islāmus
genitive	Islāmī
dative	Islāmō
accusative	Islāmum
ablative	Islāmō
vocative	Islāme