pensilis
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From pēns- (“suspended, weighed”) (perfect passive participial stem of pendō (“to weigh out”); see also pendeō (“hang”)) + -ilis (suffix forming adjectives).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpen.si.lis/, [ˈpẽːs̠ɪlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpen.si.lis/, [ˈpɛnsilis]
Adjective
[edit]pēnsilis (neuter pēnsile); third-declension two-termination adjective
Declension
[edit]Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | pēnsilis | pēnsile | pēnsilēs | pēnsilia | |
| genitive | pēnsilis | pēnsilium | |||
| dative | pēnsilī | pēnsilibus | |||
| accusative | pēnsilem | pēnsile | pēnsilēs pēnsilīs |
pēnsilia | |
| ablative | pēnsilī | pēnsilibus | |||
| vocative | pēnsilis | pēnsile | pēnsilēs | pēnsilia | |
Descendants
[edit]- Franco-Provençal: peil
- Italian: pesolo
- → English: pensile (learned)
- → Italian: pensile (learned)
- → Portuguese: pênsil (learned)
- → Proto-West Germanic: *pēsal, *pīsilā (see there for further descendants)
References
[edit]- “pensilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pensilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pensilis 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)
- pensilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.