pollicaris

Latin

Etymology

From pollex.

Adjective

pollicāris (neuter pollicāre); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. of a thumb

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative pollicāris pollicāre pollicārēs pollicāria
genitive pollicāris pollicārium
dative pollicārī pollicāribus
accusative pollicārem pollicāre pollicārīs
pollicārēs 		pollicāria
ablative pollicārī pollicāribus
vocative pollicāris pollicāre pollicārēs pollicāria

Descendants

  • Balkano-Romance:
    • Aromanian: pilicar, pulicar
    • Megleno-Romanian: pulicar
    • Romanian: policar
    • → Albanian: pulqer
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: pollicara, policara (archaic, dialectal)
    • Neapolitan: puleciaru
    • Sicilian: puḍḍecaru (Lecce)
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:

References

  • “pollicaris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pollicaris”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.