vegetabilis
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From vegetāre, vegetō (“to animate, to quicken”) + -bilis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯e.ɡeˈtaː.bi.lis/, [u̯ɛɡɛˈt̪äːbɪlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ve.d͡ʒeˈta.bi.lis/, [ved͡ʒeˈt̪äːbilis]
Adjective
[edit]vegetābilis (neuter vegetābile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- animating, enlivening, vivifying
- able to produce and support growth, vegetative
Declension
[edit]Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | vegetābilis | vegetābile | vegetābilēs | vegetābilia | |
| genitive | vegetābilis | vegetābilium | |||
| dative | vegetābilī | vegetābilibus | |||
| accusative | vegetābilem | vegetābile | vegetābilēs vegetābilīs |
vegetābilia | |
| ablative | vegetābilī | vegetābilibus | |||
| vocative | vegetābilis | vegetābile | vegetābilēs | vegetābilia | |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Italian: vegetabile
- Old French: vegetable
References
[edit]- “vegetabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vegetabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.