medianus
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From medi- (the stem of medius) + -anus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /me.diˈaː.nus/, [mɛd̪iˈäːnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /me.diˈa.nus/, [med̪iˈäːnus]
Adjective
[edit]mediānus (feminine mediāna, neuter mediānum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | mediānus | mediāna | mediānum | mediānī | mediānae | mediāna | |
Genitive | mediānī | mediānae | mediānī | mediānōrum | mediānārum | mediānōrum | |
Dative | mediānō | mediānō | mediānīs | ||||
Accusative | mediānum | mediānam | mediānum | mediānōs | mediānās | mediāna | |
Ablative | mediānō | mediānā | mediānō | mediānīs | |||
Vocative | mediāne | mediāna | mediānum | mediānī | mediānae | mediāna |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Ancient borrowings:
- Learned borrowings:
References
[edit]- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “medianus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 578
Further reading
[edit]- “medianus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- medianus 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)
- medianus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.