Jump to content

pestilentia

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Latin

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From pestilentus (pestilent) +‎ -ia.

Noun

[edit]

pestilentia f (genitive pestilentiae); first declension

  1. infectious or contagious disease; plague, pestilence

Declension

[edit]

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pestilentia pestilentiae
genitive pestilentiae pestilentiārum
dative pestilentiae pestilentiīs
accusative pestilentiam pestilentiās
ablative pestilentiā pestilentiīs
vocative pestilentia pestilentiae

Descendants

[edit]

Adjective

[edit]

pestilentia

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of pestilēns

References

[edit]
  • pestilentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pestilentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pestilentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) the plague breaks out in the city: pestilentia (not pestis) in urbem (populum) invadit