detestabilis
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the verb dētestor (“to curse”) + -bilis.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deː.tesˈtaː.bi.lis/, [d̪eːt̪ɛs̠ˈt̪äːbɪlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /de.tesˈta.bi.lis/, [d̪et̪esˈt̪äːbilis]
Adjective[edit]
dētestābilis (neuter dētestābile, comparative dētestābilior); third-declension two-termination adjective
- execrable, abominable, detestable
- Synonym: abōminābilis
Declension[edit]
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | dētestābilis | dētestābile | dētestābilēs | dētestābilia | |
| Genitive | dētestābilis | dētestābilium | |||
| Dative | dētestābilī | dētestābilibus | |||
| Accusative | dētestābilem | dētestābile | dētestābilēs dētestābilīs |
dētestābilia | |
| Ablative | dētestābilī | dētestābilibus | |||
| Vocative | dētestābilis | dētestābile | dētestābilēs | dētestābilia | |
Descendants[edit]
- Catalan: detestable
- French: détestable
- Italian: detestabile
- Portuguese: detestável
- Romanian: detestabil
- Spanish: detestable
References[edit]
- “detestabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “detestabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- detestabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.