legisperitus

Latin

Etymology

Noun formed from lex (“law”) + perītus (“skilled”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /leː.ɡis.peˈriː.tus/, [ɫ̪eːɡɪs̠pɛˈriːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /le.d͡ʒis.peˈri.tus/, [led͡ʒispeˈriːt̪us]

Noun

lēgisperītus m (genitive lēgisperītī); second declension

1. lawyer, law-expert

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lēgisperītus	lēgisperītī
genitive	lēgisperītī	lēgisperītōrum
dative	lēgisperītō	lēgisperītīs
accusative	lēgisperītum	lēgisperītōs
ablative	lēgisperītō	lēgisperītīs
vocative	lēgisperīte	lēgisperītī

References

• “legisperitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• legisperitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.