dulcamarus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]dulcis (“sweet”) + amārus (“bitter”)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /duːl.kaˈmaː.rus/, [d̪uːɫ̪käˈmäːrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dul.kaˈma.rus/, [d̪ulkäˈmäːrus]
Adjective
[edit]dūlcamārus (feminine dūlcamāra, neuter dūlcamārum); first/second-declension adjective
- both sweet and bitter, bittersweet
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Plautus to this entry?)
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | dūlcamārus | dūlcamāra | dūlcamārum | dūlcamārī | dūlcamārae | dūlcamāra | |
| genitive | dūlcamārī | dūlcamārae | dūlcamārī | dūlcamārōrum | dūlcamārārum | dūlcamārōrum | |
| dative | dūlcamārō | dūlcamārae | dūlcamārō | dūlcamārīs | |||
| accusative | dūlcamārum | dūlcamāram | dūlcamārum | dūlcamārōs | dūlcamārās | dūlcamāra | |
| ablative | dūlcamārō | dūlcamārā | dūlcamārō | dūlcamārīs | |||
| vocative | dūlcamāre | dūlcamāra | dūlcamārum | dūlcamārī | dūlcamārae | dūlcamāra | |
References
[edit]- “dūlcămārus” on page 442/1 of Louis-Marie Quicherat’s and Amédée Gaston Daveluy’s Dictionnaire Latin-Français: Nouvelle édition, revisée, corrigée et augmentée par Émile Chatelain (42nd ed., 1899)