portentus
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perfect passive participle of portendō.
Participle
[edit]portentus (feminine portenta, neuter portentum); first/second-declension participle
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | portentus | portenta | portentum | portentī | portentae | portenta | |
genitive | portentī | portentae | portentī | portentōrum | portentārum | portentōrum | |
dative | portentō | portentae | portentō | portentīs | |||
accusative | portentum | portentam | portentum | portentōs | portentās | portenta | |
ablative | portentō | portentā | portentō | portentīs | |||
vocative | portente | portenta | portentum | portentī | portentae | portenta |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “portentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “portentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- portentus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) extravagant fictions of fancy: opinionum commenta, ineptiae, monstra, portenta
- (ambiguous) marvellous ideas; prodigies: monstra or portenta
- (ambiguous) extravagant fictions of fancy: opinionum commenta, ineptiae, monstra, portenta