caelestis
Latin
Alternative forms
- coelestis
- cælestis, cœlestis
Etymology
From caelum (“heaven, sky”) + -estris, possibly influenced by the dissimilated agrestis in a coordinated phrase like dī agrestēs caelestēsque.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kae̯ˈɫɛs.tɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃeˈlɛs.tis]
Adjective
caelestis (neuter caeleste, comparative caelestior, superlative caelestissimus); third-declension two-termination adjective
- celestial, of or in the heavens, heavenly
- (figuratively) divine, of the gods
- (figuratively) magnificent, preeminent, god-like
- Synonyms: caeles, caelestīnus
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | caelestis | caeleste | caelestēs | caelestia | |||
| genitive | caelestis | caelestis caelestae |
caelestis | caelestium caelestum | |||
| dative | caelestī | caelestibus | |||||
| accusative | caelestem | caeleste | caelestīs caelestēs |
caelestia | |||
| ablative | caelestī caeleste |
caelestī | caelestibus | ||||
| vocative | caelestis | caeleste | caelestēs | caelestia | |||
Derived terms
- caelestia
- caelestiālis
- intercaelestis
- succaelestis
- supercaelestis
Related terms
Descendants
- Italo-Dalmatian:
- Ibero-Romance:
- >? Galician: xistra
Borrowings:
- → Catalan: celeste (learned), ⇒ celístia (semi-learned)
- → Galician: celeste (learned)
- → Gallurese: cilesti (learned)
- →? Italian: celeste (semi-learned/latinized?)
- → Ligurian: celeste (learned)
- → Old French: celeste (learned)
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: celeste (learned)
- Portuguese: celeste
- Sardinian:
- → Logudorese: tzeleste, cheleste (learned)
- → Nuorese: tzeleste (learned)
- → Campidanese: celesti (learned)
- → Spanish: celeste (learned)
- → Swedish: celest (learned)
- → Venetan: celeste, zheleste
Noun
caelestis m or f (genitive caelestis); third declension
- (usually in the plural) a deity
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | caelestis | caelestēs |
| genitive | caelestis | caelestium caelestum |
| dative | caelestī | caelestibus |
| accusative | caelestem | caelestēs caelestīs |
| ablative | caeleste | caelestibus |
| vocative | caelestis | caelestēs |
Further reading
- “caelestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caelestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “caelestis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 238.
- caelestis in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, columns 900–901
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (1) the heavenly bodies, (2) celestial phenomena: caelestia
- astronomy: astrologia (pure Latin sidera, caelestia)
- an astronomer: spectator siderum, rerum caelestium or astrologus
- heavenly things; earthly things: supera et caelestia; humana et citerioria
- (1) the heavenly bodies, (2) celestial phenomena: caelestia