assassinus

Latin

Alternative forms

• asasīnus

Etymology

From Arabic حَشَّاشِين (ḥaššāšīn).

Noun

assassīnus m (genitive assassīnī); second declension

1. (Medieval Latin) assassin, professional criminal

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	assassīnus	assassīnī
genitive	assassīnī	assassīnōrum
dative	assassīnō	assassīnīs
accusative	assassīnum	assassīnōs
ablative	assassīnō	assassīnīs
vocative	assassīne	assassīnī

References

• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “asasinus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill