monstrificabilis
Latin
Etymology
From *mōnstrificō + -bilis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [mõː.strɪ.fɪˈkaː.bɪ.lɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [mon.stri.fiˈkaː.bi.lis]
Adjective
mōnstrificābilis (neuter mōnstrificābile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (hapax legomenon) monstrous
- c. 165 BCE – 103 BCE, Gaius Lucilius, Saturae 26.608:
- Nunc ignōbilitās hīs mīrum ac mōnstrificābile.
- Now to them obscurity is strange and monstrous.
- Nunc ignōbilitās hīs mīrum ac mōnstrificābile.
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | mōnstrificābilis | mōnstrificābile | mōnstrificābilēs | mōnstrificābilia | |
| genitive | mōnstrificābilis | mōnstrificābilium | |||
| dative | mōnstrificābilī | mōnstrificābilibus | |||
| accusative | mōnstrificābilem | mōnstrificābile | mōnstrificābilīs mōnstrificābilēs |
mōnstrificābilia | |
| ablative | mōnstrificābilī | mōnstrificābilibus | |||
| vocative | mōnstrificābilis | mōnstrificābile | mōnstrificābilēs | mōnstrificābilia | |
Further reading
- “monstrificabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “monstrificabilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- monstrificabilis in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung