pusillanimis
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From pusillus (“very small”) + animus (“spirit”), calque of Ancient Greek ὀλιγόψυχος (oligópsukhos).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pu.silˈla.ni.mis/, [pʊs̠ɪlˈlʲänɪmɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pu.silˈla.ni.mis/, [pus̬ilˈläːnimis]
Adjective[edit]
pusillanimis (neuter pusillanime); third-declension two-termination adjective
Declension[edit]
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | pusillanimis | pusillanime | pusillanimēs | pusillanimia | |
| Genitive | pusillanimis | pusillanimium | |||
| Dative | pusillanimī | pusillanimibus | |||
| Accusative | pusillanimem | pusillanime | pusillanimēs pusillanimīs |
pusillanimia | |
| Ablative | pusillanimī | pusillanimibus | |||
| Vocative | pusillanimis | pusillanime | pusillanimēs | pusillanimia | |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Catalan: pusil·lànime
- → English: pusillanimous
- → French: pusillanime
- → Galician: pusilánime
- → Italian: pusillanime
- → Portuguese: pusilânime
- → Spanish: pusilánime
References[edit]
- “pusillanimis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pusillanimis 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)
- pusillanimis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.