haereticus

Latin

Alternative forms

• hēreticus, hoereticus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek αἱρετῐκός (hairetĭkós, “able to choose”), from αἱρέω (hairéō, “I choose, select”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hae̯ˈre.ti.kus/, [häe̯ˈrɛt̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈre.ti.kus/, [eˈrɛːt̪ikus]

Adjective

haereticus (feminine haeretica, neuter haereticum, adverb haereticē); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Late Latin) heretical

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	haereticus	haeretica	haereticum		haereticī	haereticae	haeretica
genitive	haereticī	haereticae	haereticī		haereticōrum	haereticārum	haereticōrum
dative	haereticō	haereticae	haereticō		haereticīs
accusative	haereticum	haereticam	haereticum		haereticōs	haereticās	haeretica
ablative	haereticō	haereticā	haereticō		haereticīs
vocative	haeretice	haeretica	haereticum		haereticī	haereticae	haeretica

Derived terms

• haereticismus
• haereticō
• haereticomastix
• haereticor
• haereticulus

Noun

haereticus m (genitive haereticī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) heretic

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	haereticus	haereticī
genitive	haereticī	haereticōrum
dative	haereticō	haereticīs
accusative	haereticum	haereticōs
ablative	haereticō	haereticīs
vocative	haeretice	haereticī

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Old Italian: retico
    • Italian: eretico
    • →⇒ Dalmatian: reticuot
  • Sicilian: rèticu
• Padanian:
  • Old Ligurian: erexi (plural)
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: heréjo
  • Old French: erege
    • French: hérège (obsolete or dialectal)
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Occitan: eretje, yzege, hiregge
    • Catalan: heretge
    • Occitan: erètge
    • → Portuguese: herege
    • → Spanish: hereje
• Borrowings:
  • → Catalan: herètic (learned)
  • → Old French: eretique (learned)
    • French: hérétique
    • → Middle English: heretic
      • English: heretic
  • →⇒ German: häretisch
  • →⇒ Hungarian: eretnek
  • → Occitan: eretic (learned)
  • → Portuguese: herético (learned)
  • → Spanish: herético (learned)
  • →⇒ Swedish: heretiker, heretisk

References

• “haereticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• haereticus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• haereticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• haereticus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “haerētĭcus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 374