pollicaris

Latin

Etymology

From pollex.

Adjective

pollicāris (neuter pollicāre); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. of a thumb

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	pollicāris	pollicāre		pollicārēs	pollicāria
genitive	pollicāris			pollicārium
dative	pollicārī			pollicāribus
accusative	pollicārem	pollicāre		pollicārēs pollicārīs	pollicāria
ablative	pollicārī			pollicāribus
vocative	pollicāris	pollicāre		pollicārēs	pollicāria

Descendants

• Aromanian: pilicar, pulicar
• Asturian: pulgar
• Catalan: polleguera
• Friulian: poleâr
• Galician: polgar
• Megleno-Romanian: pulicar
• Occitan: pulgar
• Portuguese: polegar
• Romanian: policar
• Spanish: pulgar
• → Albanian: pulqer

References

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