vehemens
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The Century Dictionary (1911) traces this with uncertainty to vehō (“carry”) + mēns (“mind”), thus "one who gets carried away in mind" > "ardent"; this appears to be supported by de Vaan.[1] An alternative explanation (Sihler; essentially Lewis and Short) makes the first element vē- (“out of”) in a fanciful spelling, connecting it to Sanskrit वहिस् (vahis, “alternative form of बहिस् (bahís, “out”)”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯e.he.mens/, [ˈu̯e(ɦ)ɛmẽːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈve.e.mens/, [ˈvɛːemens]
Adjective
[edit]vehemēns (genitive vehementis, comparative vehementior, superlative vehementissimus, adverb vehementer); third-declension one-termination adjective
Declension
[edit]Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | vehemēns | vehementēs | vehementia | ||
| genitive | vehementis | vehementium | |||
| dative | vehementī | vehementibus | |||
| accusative | vehementem | vehemēns | vehementēs | vehementia | |
| ablative | vehementī | vehementibus | |||
| vocative | vehemēns | vehementēs | vehementia | ||
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vehō, -ere (> Derivatives: > vehemēns 'violent')”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 658
- ^ “vehemens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Further reading
[edit]- “vehemens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vehemens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “vehement”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.