masculus
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mās ("male") + -culus (diminutive ending).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmas.ku.lus/, [ˈmäs̠kʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmas.ku.lus/, [ˈmäskulus]
- Note: the /a/ of this word is presumed to be short as in the oblique stem of the base word, and not long as in the nominative, since word-formation operates on the former.
Adjective
[edit]masculus (feminine mascula, neuter masculum); first/second-declension adjective
- male, masculine
- manly, virile
- Used of the larger and coarser varieties of plants or other natural products
- (engineering) a male connector
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | masculus | mascula | masculum | masculī | masculae | mascula | |
genitive | masculī | masculae | masculī | masculōrum | masculārum | masculōrum | |
dative | masculō | masculae | masculō | masculīs | |||
accusative | masculum | masculam | masculum | masculōs | masculās | mascula | |
ablative | masculō | masculā | masculō | masculīs | |||
vocative | mascule | mascula | masculum | masculī | masculae | mascula |
Noun
[edit]masculus m (genitive masculī); second declension
- a male (of humans or other animals)
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | masculus | masculī |
genitive | masculī | masculōrum |
dative | masculō | masculīs |
accusative | masculum | masculōs |
ablative | masculō | masculīs |
vocative | mascule | masculī |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit](Most inherited Romance reflexes derive from a syncopated variant masclus, attested in the Appendix Probi.)
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
References
[edit]- “masculus” on page 1190 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- “mâle” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1078: “il maschio e la femmina” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Further reading
[edit]- “masculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “masculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- masculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms suffixed with -culus
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin first and second declension adjectives
- la:Engineering
- Latin nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the second declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- la:Gender