biothanatus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek βιοθάνατος (biothánatos).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /bi.oˈtʰa.na.tus/, [biɔˈt̪ʰänät̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /bi.oˈta.na.tus/, [bioˈt̪äːnät̪us]
Adjective[edit]
biothanatus (feminine biothanata, neuter biothanatum); first/second-declension adjective
- that died a violent death
- (Medieval Latin) that committed suicide
- (Medieval Latin, Christianity) reprobate, condemned to hell
- 1142, Orderic Vitalis, Historia Ecclesiastica, section 8.17:
- Interea sacerdos coepit secum tractare quod non auderet exsecrabilia biothanati mandata cuilibet annuntiare.
- Nevertheless, the priest began to consider that he did not dare pass on to anyone the execrable tidings of a reprobate.
- (Medieval Latin, Christianity) that died without receiving last rites
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | biothanatus | biothanata | biothanatum | biothanatī | biothanatae | biothanata | |
| Genitive | biothanatī | biothanatae | biothanatī | biothanatōrum | biothanatārum | biothanatōrum | |
| Dative | biothanatō | biothanatō | biothanatīs | ||||
| Accusative | biothanatum | biothanatam | biothanatum | biothanatōs | biothanatās | biothanata | |
| Ablative | biothanatō | biothanatā | biothanatō | biothanatīs | |||
| Vocative | biothanate | biothanata | biothanatum | biothanatī | biothanatae | biothanata | |
References[edit]
- “biothanatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- biothanatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- biothanatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “biothanatus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 98
- biothanatus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck