vegetabilis
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From vegetāre, vegetō (“to animate, to quicken”) + -bilis.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯e.ɡeˈtaː.bi.lis/, [u̯ɛɡɛˈt̪äːbɪlʲɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ve.d͡ʒeˈta.bi.lis/, [ved͡ʒeˈt̪äːbilis]
Adjective[edit]
vegetābilis (neuter vegetābile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- animating, enlivening, vivifying
- able to produce and support growth, vegetative
Declension[edit]
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | vegetābilis | vegetābile | vegetābilēs | vegetābilia | |
Genitive | vegetābilis | vegetābilium | |||
Dative | vegetābilī | vegetābilibus | |||
Accusative | vegetābilem | vegetābile | vegetābilēs vegetābilīs |
vegetābilia | |
Ablative | vegetābilī | vegetābilibus | |||
Vocative | vegetābilis | vegetābile | vegetābilēs | vegetābilia |
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- English: vegetable
- Italian: vegetabile
References[edit]
- “vegetabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vegetabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.