sescenaris
Latin
Etymology
Conventionally explained as a corruption of a hypothesised *sēscennālis, from sēsqui- (“one and a half”) + annālis (“yearly”); compare decennālis (“ten-yearly”). However, Lewis and Short regard as "improbable" the "conjectural correction" to *sēscennālis or alternatively to sexennis (“six-year-old”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [seːs.keːˈnaː.rɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [seʃ.ʃeˈnaː.ris]
Adjective
sēscēnāris (neuter sēscēnāre); third-declension two-termination adjective
- (hapax legomenon) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: one and a half years old
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 41.15.1:
- exposuit patribus conscriptis bovis sescenaris, quem immolavisset, iocur diffluxisse
- he explained to the senators that the liver of the […] ox which he had sacrificed had disappeared
- exposuit patribus conscriptis bovis sescenaris, quem immolavisset, iocur diffluxisse
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | sēscēnāris | sēscēnāre | sēscēnārēs | sēscēnāria | |
| genitive | sēscēnāris | sēscēnārium | |||
| dative | sēscēnārī | sēscēnāribus | |||
| accusative | sēscēnārem | sēscēnāre | sēscēnārīs sēscēnārēs |
sēscēnāria | |
| ablative | sēscēnārī | sēscēnāribus | |||
| vocative | sēscēnāris | sēscēnāre | sēscēnārēs | sēscēnāria | |
References
- “sescenaris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sescenaris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sescenaris”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.