apocryphus
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Latin[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- apocrifus (Late Latin, Vulgate)
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek ἀπόκρυφος (apókruphos).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈpo.kry.pʰus/, [äˈpɔkrʏpʰʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈpo.kri.fus/, [äˈpɔːkrifus]
Adjective[edit]
apocryphus (feminine apocrypha, neuter apocryphum); first/second-declension adjective
- secret, not approved for public reading
- apocryphal
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | apocryphus | apocrypha | apocryphum | apocryphī | apocryphae | apocrypha | |
Genitive | apocryphī | apocryphae | apocryphī | apocryphōrum | apocryphārum | apocryphōrum | |
Dative | apocryphō | apocryphō | apocryphīs | ||||
Accusative | apocryphum | apocrypham | apocryphum | apocryphōs | apocryphās | apocrypha | |
Ablative | apocryphō | apocryphā | apocryphō | apocryphīs | |||
Vocative | apocryphe | apocrypha | apocryphum | apocryphī | apocryphae | apocrypha |
Descendants[edit]
- Asturian: apócrifu
- Catalan: apòcrif
- French: apocryphe
- Italian: apocrifo
- Portuguese: apócrifo
- Romanian: apocrif
- Spanish: apócrifo
References[edit]
- “apocryphus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- apocryphus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette