sexangulus
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sex (“six”) + angulus (“angled”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /sekˈsan.ɡu.lus/, [s̠ɛkˈs̠äŋɡʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sekˈsan.ɡu.lus/, [seɡˈzäŋɡulus]
Adjective
[edit]sexangulus (feminine sexangula, neuter sexangulum); first/second-declension adjective
- hexagonal
- 1611, Johannes Kepler, Strena seu De Niva Sexangula, title:
- De Niva Sexangula.
- On the Hexagonal Snowflake.
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | sexangulus | sexangula | sexangulum | sexangulī | sexangulae | sexangula | |
| genitive | sexangulī | sexangulae | sexangulī | sexangulōrum | sexangulārum | sexangulōrum | |
| dative | sexangulō | sexangulae | sexangulō | sexangulīs | |||
| accusative | sexangulum | sexangulam | sexangulum | sexangulōs | sexangulās | sexangula | |
| ablative | sexangulō | sexangulā | sexangulō | sexangulīs | |||
| vocative | sexangule | sexangula | sexangulum | sexangulī | sexangulae | sexangula | |
References
[edit]- “sexangulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sexangulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sexangulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
sexangulus in John C. Traupman, Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency, Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2007