auratilis
Latin
Etymology
From aurātus (“gilded; gold-colored”) + -ilis, perfect passive participle of aurō (“I gild”), from aurum (“gold”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [au̯ˈraː.tɪ.lɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [au̯ˈraː.ti.lis]
Adjective
aurātilis (neuter aurātile); third-declension two-termination adjective (rare, Late Latin, New Latin)
- Of the color of gold, gold-colored.
- c. 250 CE, Solinus, De mirabilibus mundi:
- Et cyaneus e Scythia est, optimus si caerulo coruscabit. Cuius gnari in marem et feminam genus dividunt: feminis nitor purus est, mares punctillis ad gratiam interlucentibus auratilis pulviculus variat.
- And cyaneus, from Scythia, is best if it glitters with blue. Experts divide it into male and female types: the females have a pure brightness, the males are variegated charmingly with glittering specks of gold-colored dust.
- Et cyaneus e Scythia est, optimus si caerulo coruscabit. Cuius gnari in marem et feminam genus dividunt: feminis nitor purus est, mares punctillis ad gratiam interlucentibus auratilis pulviculus variat.
Usage notes
Used in Late Latin by Solinus; subsequently used by various New Latin authors (for example, in scientific descriptions of species or taxonomic names).
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | aurātilis | aurātile | aurātilēs | aurātilia | |
| genitive | aurātilis | aurātilium | |||
| dative | aurātilī | aurātilibus | |||
| accusative | aurātilem | aurātile | aurātilīs aurātilēs |
aurātilia | |
| ablative | aurātilī | aurātilibus | |||
| vocative | aurātilis | aurātile | aurātilēs | aurātilia | |
Synonyms
- (of the color of gold): aureus, aurōsus, aurulentus
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “auratilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “auratilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.