masculus
Latin
Alternative forms
- masclus, mascel (Late Latin, proscribed)
Etymology
From mās ("male") + -culus (diminutive ending).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmas.kʊ.ɫʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmas.ku.lus]
Adjective
masculus (feminine mascula, neuter masculum); first/second-declension adjective
- male, masculine
- manly, virile
- Used of the larger and coarser varieties of plants or other natural products
- (engineering) a male connector
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | masculus | mascula | masculum | masculī | masculae | mascula | |
| genitive | masculī | masculae | masculī | masculōrum | masculārum | masculōrum | |
| dative | masculō | masculae | masculō | masculīs | |||
| accusative | masculum | masculam | masculum | masculōs | masculās | mascula | |
| ablative | masculō | masculā | masculō | masculīs | |||
| vocative | mascule | mascula | masculum | masculī | masculae | mascula | |
Noun
masculus m (genitive masculī); second declension
- a male (of humans or other animals)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | masculus | masculī |
| genitive | masculī | masculōrum |
| dative | masculō | masculīs |
| accusative | masculum | masculōs |
| ablative | masculō | masculīs |
| vocative | mascule | masculī |
Derived terms
Descendants
(Most inherited Romance reflexes derive from a syncopated variant masclus, attested in the Appendix Probi.)
References
- “masculus” on page 1190 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “mâle”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1078: “il maschio e la femmina” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Further reading
- “masculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “masculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “masculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.