sacerrimus
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /saˈker.ri.mus/, [s̠äˈkɛrːɪmʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /saˈt͡ʃer.ri.mus/, [säˈt͡ʃɛrːimus]
Adjective
[edit]sacerrimus (superlative, feminine sacerrima, neuter sacerrimum, positive sacer); first/second declension
- superlative degree of sacer; most or very sacred
- Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 6.1:
- M[ārcus] Catō, sōlus maximum vīvendī moriendīque exemplum, morī māluit quam rogāre (nec erat Antōnium rogātūrus), et illās usque ad ultimum diem pūrās ā cīvīlī sanguine manūs in pectus sacerrimum armavit.
- Marcus Cato, alone our noblest pattern in life and in death, chose to die rather than beg for mercy - yet it was no Antony he had to petition - and armed those hands of his, to the last unstained by Roman blood, against his own noble breast.
- M[ārcus] Catō, sōlus maximum vīvendī moriendīque exemplum, morī māluit quam rogāre (nec erat Antōnium rogātūrus), et illās usque ad ultimum diem pūrās ā cīvīlī sanguine manūs in pectus sacerrimum armavit.
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | sacerrimus | sacerrima | sacerrimum | sacerrimī | sacerrimae | sacerrima | |
genitive | sacerrimī | sacerrimae | sacerrimī | sacerrimōrum | sacerrimārum | sacerrimōrum | |
dative | sacerrimō | sacerrimae | sacerrimō | sacerrimīs | |||
accusative | sacerrimum | sacerrimam | sacerrimum | sacerrimōs | sacerrimās | sacerrima | |
ablative | sacerrimō | sacerrimā | sacerrimō | sacerrimīs | |||
vocative | sacerrime | sacerrima | sacerrimum | sacerrimī | sacerrimae | sacerrima |