pumilus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-, the same root of puer (“child”) and pūpus (“puppet”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈpuː.mi.lus/, [ˈpuːmɪɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpu.mi.lus/, [ˈpuːmilus]
Noun[edit]
pūmilus m (genitive pūmilī); second declension
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pūmilus | pūmilī |
Genitive | pūmilī | pūmilōrum |
Dative | pūmilō | pūmilīs |
Accusative | pūmilum | pūmilōs |
Ablative | pūmilō | pūmilīs |
Vocative | pūmile | pūmilī |
Synonyms[edit]
Adjective[edit]
pūmilus (feminine pūmila, neuter pūmilum); first/second-declension adjective
- dwarf (especially as a taxonomic epithet)
Usage notes[edit]
- Used almost exclusively as a taxonomic epithet and thus not normally in inflected forms other than the nominative singular.
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | pūmilus | pūmila | pūmilum | pūmilī | pūmilae | pūmila | |
Genitive | pūmilī | pūmilae | pūmilī | pūmilōrum | pūmilārum | pūmilōrum | |
Dative | pūmilō | pūmilō | pūmilīs | ||||
Accusative | pūmilum | pūmilam | pūmilum | pūmilōs | pūmilās | pūmila | |
Ablative | pūmilō | pūmilā | pūmilō | pūmilīs | |||
Vocative | pūmile | pūmila | pūmilum | pūmilī | pūmilae | pūmila |
Synonyms[edit]
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References[edit]
- “pumilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pumilus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “pumilus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 389