expositicius
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛk.spɔ.sɪˈtiː.ki.ʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ek.spo.s̬iˈtiː.t͡ʃi.us]
Adjective
expositīcius (feminine expositīcia, neuter expositīcium); first/second-declension adjective (hapax legomenon)
- (of children) (that has been) abandoned as a child, orphaned
- c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina prologus.0.79–80:
- Revortar ad illam puellam expositiciam,
quam servi summa vi sibi uxorem expetunt.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Revortar ad illam puellam expositiciam,
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | expositīcius | expositīcia | expositīcium | expositīciī | expositīciae | expositīcia | |
| genitive | expositīciī | expositīciae | expositīciī | expositīciōrum | expositīciārum | expositīciōrum | |
| dative | expositīciō | expositīciae | expositīciō | expositīciīs | |||
| accusative | expositīcium | expositīciam | expositīcium | expositīciōs | expositīciās | expositīcia | |
| ablative | expositīciō | expositīciā | expositīciō | expositīciīs | |||
| vocative | expositīcie | expositīcia | expositīcium | expositīciī | expositīciae | expositīcia | |
Further reading
- “expŏsĭtĭcĭus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “expŏsĭtīcĭus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.