saxifragus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From saxum (“a stone, rock”) + frangō (“break, shatter”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /sakˈsi.fra.ɡus/, [s̠äkˈs̠ɪfräɡʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sakˈsi.fra.ɡus/, [säkˈsiːfräɡus]
Adjective[edit]
saxifragus (feminine saxifraga, neuter saxifragum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | saxifragus | saxifraga | saxifragum | saxifragī | saxifragae | saxifraga | |
| Genitive | saxifragī | saxifragae | saxifragī | saxifragōrum | saxifragārum | saxifragōrum | |
| Dative | saxifragō | saxifragō | saxifragīs | ||||
| Accusative | saxifragum | saxifragam | saxifragum | saxifragōs | saxifragās | saxifraga | |
| Ablative | saxifragō | saxifragā | saxifragō | saxifragīs | |||
| Vocative | saxifrage | saxifraga | saxifragum | saxifragī | saxifragae | saxifraga | |
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Catalan: salsufragi
- Galician: seixebra
References[edit]
- “saxifragus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “saxifragus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- saxifragus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.