passivus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From patior (“to endure”) + -īvus (adjective suffix). In the grammatical sense, it is a calque of Ancient Greek παθητικός (pathētikós).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pasˈsiː.u̯us/, [päs̠ˈs̠iːu̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pasˈsi.vus/, [päsˈsiːvus]
Adjective
[edit]passīvus (feminine passīva, neuter passīvum, adverb passīvē); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | passīvus | passīva | passīvum | passīvī | passīvae | passīva | |
| genitive | passīvī | passīvae | passīvī | passīvōrum | passīvārum | passīvōrum | |
| dative | passīvō | passīvae | passīvō | passīvīs | |||
| accusative | passīvum | passīvam | passīvum | passīvōs | passīvās | passīva | |
| ablative | passīvō | passīvā | passīvō | passīvīs | |||
| vocative | passīve | passīva | passīvum | passīvī | passīvae | passīva | |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: passiu
- → Danish: passiv
- → English: passive
- → French: passif
- → Turkish: pasif
- → German: passiv
- → Italian: passivo
- → Portuguese: passivo
- → Russian: пасси́вный (passívnyj)
- → Sicilian: passivu
- → Spanish: pasivo
- → Swedish: passiv
References
[edit]- “passivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- passivus 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)
- passivus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.