commenticius

Latin

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Latin commentus

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -īcus

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -īcius

Latin commentīcius

From commentus (“devised”) + -īcius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔm.mɛnˈtiː.ki.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kom.menˈtiː.t͡ʃi.us]

Adjective

commentīcius (feminine commentīcia, neuter commentīcium); first/second-declension adjective

1. invented, devised, fabricated
2. imaginary
3. fictitious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	commentīcius	commentīcia	commentīcium		commentīciī	commentīciae	commentīcia
genitive	commentīciī	commentīciae	commentīciī		commentīciōrum	commentīciārum	commentīciōrum
dative	commentīciō	commentīciae	commentīciō		commentīciīs
accusative	commentīcium	commentīciam	commentīcium		commentīciōs	commentīciās	commentīcia
ablative	commentīciō	commentīciā	commentīciō		commentīciīs
vocative	commentīcie	commentīcia	commentīcium		commentīciī	commentīciae	commentīcia

Descendants

• → English: commentitious
• → Italian: commentizio
• → Portuguese: comentício
• → Spanish: comenticio

References

• “commenticius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “commenticius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “commenticius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Plato's ideal republic: illa civitas Platonis commenticia