alternus
Appearance
Esperanto
[edit]Verb
[edit]alternus
- conditional of alterni
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /alˈter.nus/, [äɫ̪ˈt̪ɛrnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /alˈter.nus/, [äl̪ˈt̪ɛrnus]
Adjective
[edit]alternus (feminine alterna, neuter alternum); first/second-declension adjective
- alternate (one after the other), successive
- interchangeable
- mutual, reciprocal
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | alternus | alterna | alternum | alternī | alternae | alterna | |
genitive | alternī | alternae | alternī | alternōrum | alternārum | alternōrum | |
dative | alternō | alternae | alternō | alternīs | |||
accusative | alternum | alternam | alternum | alternōs | alternās | alterna | |
ablative | alternō | alternā | alternō | alternīs | |||
vocative | alterne | alterna | alternum | alternī | alternae | alterna |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “alternus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “alternus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- alternus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- every other day: alternis diebus
- every other day: alternis diebus