letalis
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From lētum (“death; ruin”) + -ālis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /leːˈtaː.lis/, [ɫ̪eːˈt̪äːlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /leˈta.lis/, [leˈt̪äːlis]
Adjective
[edit]lētālis (neuter lētāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- lethal, deadly, fatal, mortal
- c. 1129, Henricus Huntindoniensis, edited by Thomas Arnold, Historia Anglorum[1], published 1879, page 194:
- Quem cum bello caesum patri renuntiassent, ait: "Recepitne vulnus letale in anteriori vel posteriori corporis parte?" Dixerunt nuntii: "In anteriori."
- And when they had reported his death during the battle to his father, he said: "Did he receive the lethal blow on the front or the back of his body?" The messengers said: "In the front."
- 2007, Carolus Petreius Bogotensis, Niponum gallinae probantur viru aviarii morbi contactae[2], Ephemeris:
- Biologici Nipones affirmant virus H5N1 {...} esse letale.
- Japanese biologists confirm that the H5N1 virus {...} is lethal.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension two-termination adjective.
singular | plural | ||||
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masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
nominative | lētālis | lētāle | lētālēs | lētālia | |
genitive | lētālis | lētālium | |||
dative | lētālī | lētālibus | |||
accusative | lētālem | lētāle | lētālēs lētālīs |
lētālia | |
ablative | lētālī | lētālibus | |||
vocative | lētālis | lētāle | lētālēs | lētālia |
Related terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- “letalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “letalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- letalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.