rhetoricus

Latin

Alternative forms

• rethoricus (Late Latin, Vulgate)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ῥητορικός (rhētorikós).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /reːˈto.ri.kus/, [reːˈt̪ɔrɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈto.ri.kus/, [reˈt̪ɔːrikus]

Adjective

rhētoricus (feminine rhētorica, neuter rhētoricum, comparative rhētoricōteros); first/second-declension adjective

1. rhetorical, of or pertaining to rhetoric or a rhetoritician

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	rhētoricus	rhētorica	rhētoricum		rhētoricī	rhētoricae	rhētorica
genitive	rhētoricī	rhētoricae	rhētoricī		rhētoricōrum	rhētoricārum	rhētoricōrum
dative	rhētoricō	rhētoricae	rhētoricō		rhētoricīs
accusative	rhētoricum	rhētoricam	rhētoricum		rhētoricōs	rhētoricās	rhētorica
ablative	rhētoricō	rhētoricā	rhētoricō		rhētoricīs
vocative	rhētorice	rhētorica	rhētoricum		rhētoricī	rhētoricae	rhētorica

Related terms

• rhētorica
• rhētoricē

Descendants

• Catalan: retòric
• English: rhetoric
• French: rhétorique
• Galician: retórico
• Italian: retorico
• Piedmontese: retòrich
• Portuguese: retórico
• Romanian: retoric
• Sicilian: ritòricu
• Spanish: retórico

References

• “rhetoricus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rhetoricus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rhetoricus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to add rhetorical, dramatic embellishments to a subject: rhetorice, tragice ornare aliquid (Brut. 11. 43)