plumatilis

Latin

Etymology

Equivalent to plūma (“feather”) +‎ -ātilis or plūmāt- (“feathered”) (perfect passive participial stem of plūmō (“to feather; to embroider”)) +‎ -ilis (suffix forming adjectives).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pluːˈmaː.ti.lis/, [pɫ̪uːˈmäːt̪ɪlʲɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pluˈma.ti.lis/, [pluˈmäːt̪ilis]

Adjective

plūmātilis (neuter plūmātile); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (hapax) embroidered like feathers
   • c. 254 BCE – 184 BCE, Plautus, Epidicus 233:

     cumatile aut plumatile, carinum aut cerinum—gerrae maxumae.

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	plūmātilis	plūmātile		plūmātilēs	plūmātilia
genitive	plūmātilis			plūmātilium
dative	plūmātilī			plūmātilibus
accusative	plūmātilem	plūmātile		plūmātilēs plūmātilīs	plūmātilia
ablative	plūmātilī			plūmātilibus
vocative	plūmātilis	plūmātile		plūmātilēs	plūmātilia

References

• “plumatilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press