pacificus

Latin

Etymology

From pāx (“peace”) +‎ -ficus (“bringing, making”), related to faciō (“to make”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /paːˈki.fi.kus/, [päːˈkɪfɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈt͡ʃi.fi.kus/, [päˈt͡ʃiːfikus]

Adjective

pācificus (feminine pācifica, neuter pācificum, adverb pācificē); first/second-declension adjective

1. peacemaking, pacific, peaceable
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.407–408:

     pāce Cerēs laeta est; et vōs ōrātē, colōnī,
     perpetuam pācem pācificumque ducem

     Ceres delights in peace; and you, farmers –
     pray for perpetual peace and a peacemaking ruler.
     (See Ceres (mythology).)

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.3.17:

     viae eius viae pulchrae et omnēs sēmitae illīus pācificae

     Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceable.
     (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	pācificus	pācifica	pācificum		pācificī	pācificae	pācifica
genitive	pācificī	pācificae	pācificī		pācificōrum	pācificārum	pācificōrum
dative	pācificō	pācificae	pācificō		pācificīs
accusative	pācificum	pācificam	pācificum		pācificōs	pācificās	pācifica
ablative	pācificō	pācificā	pācificō		pācificīs
vocative	pācifice	pācifica	pācificum		pācificī	pācificae	pācifica

Synonyms

• (peacemaking): pācificātōrius

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “peacemaking”): bellicōsus

Derived terms

• pācificē

Related terms

• pācālis
• pācātē
• pācātiō
• pācātor
• pācātōrius
• pācātum
• pācātus
• pācifer
• pācificātiō
• pācificātor
• pācificātōrius
• pācificō
• pācō
• pāx

Descendants

• → English: pacific
• → French: pacifique
• → Italian: pacifico
• → Portuguese: pacífico
• → Romanian: pacific
• → Spanish: pacífico

References

• “pacificus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pacificus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pacificus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.