sponsus
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈspõː.sʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈspɔn.sus]
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of spondeō (“to vow, pledge”). The noun was substantivized from the participle.
Noun
spōnsus m (genitive spōnsī, feminine spōnsa); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | spōnsus | spōnsī |
| genitive | spōnsī | spōnsōrum |
| dative | spōnsō | spōnsīs |
| accusative | spōnsum | spōnsōs |
| ablative | spōnsō | spōnsīs |
| vocative | spōnse | spōnsī |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Asturian: esposu
- Catalan: espòs
- Friulian: spôs
- Galician: esposo
- German: Gespons
- Ido: spozo
- Esperanto: spozo
- Italian: sposo
- German: Gspusi
- Judeo-Italian: סְפוּסוֹ (səpuso /spuso/)
- Lombard: spós
- Occitan: espós
- Old French: espos
- Portuguese: esposo
- Romansh: spus, spous
- Sardinian: isposu, sposu
- Sicilian: spusu
- Spanish: esposo
- Venetan: spóxo
Participle
spōnsus (feminine spōnsa, neuter spōnsum); first/second-declension participle
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | spōnsus | spōnsa | spōnsum | spōnsī | spōnsae | spōnsa | |
| genitive | spōnsī | spōnsae | spōnsī | spōnsōrum | spōnsārum | spōnsōrum | |
| dative | spōnsō | spōnsae | spōnsō | spōnsīs | |||
| accusative | spōnsum | spōnsam | spōnsum | spōnsōs | spōnsās | spōnsa | |
| ablative | spōnsō | spōnsā | spōnsō | spōnsīs | |||
| vocative | spōnse | spōnsa | spōnsum | spōnsī | spōnsae | spōnsa | |
Etymology 2
From spondeō + -tus (forming action noun).
Noun
spōnsus m (genitive spōnsūs); fourth declension
Usage notes
Only used in the ablative singular.
Declension
Fourth-declension noun, singular only.
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | spōnsus |
| genitive | spōnsūs |
| dative | spōnsuī |
| accusative | spōnsum |
| ablative | spōnsū |
| vocative | spōnsus |
References
- “spōnsus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spōnsus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spōnsus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “spōnsus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sponsus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.