pestilentus

Latin

Etymology

From pestis (“disease, plague”) +‎ -ilentus (“full of, abounding in”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pes.tiˈlen.tus/, [pɛs̠t̪ɪˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pes.tiˈlen.tus/, [pest̪iˈlɛn̪t̪us]

Adjective

pestilentus (feminine pestilenta, neuter pestilentum); first/second-declension adjective

1. pestilential, unhealthy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	pestilentus	pestilenta	pestilentum		pestilentī	pestilentae	pestilenta
genitive	pestilentī	pestilentae	pestilentī		pestilentōrum	pestilentārum	pestilentōrum
dative	pestilentō	pestilentae	pestilentō		pestilentīs
accusative	pestilentum	pestilentam	pestilentum		pestilentōs	pestilentās	pestilenta
ablative	pestilentō	pestilentā	pestilentō		pestilentīs
vocative	pestilente	pestilenta	pestilentum		pestilentī	pestilentae	pestilenta

Derived terms

• pestilēns
• pestilentia

References

• “pestilentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pestilentus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.