contextus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of Latin contexō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈtɛk.stʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈtɛk.stus]

Participle

contextus (feminine contexta, neuter contextum, adverb contextē); first/second-declension participle

1. interwoven
2. connected, coherent
3. continuous, uninterrupted, unbroken

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	contextus	contexta	contextum		contextī	contextae	contexta
genitive	contextī	contextae	contextī		contextōrum	contextārum	contextōrum
dative	contextō	contextae	contextō		contextīs
accusative	contextum	contextam	contextum		contextōs	contextās	contexta
ablative	contextō	contextā	contextō		contextīs
vocative	contexte	contexta	contextum		contextī	contextae	contexta

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *tek-

Proto-Indo-European *-sti

Proto-Indo-European *téksti

Proto-Italic *teksō

Latin texō

Latin contexō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin contextus

From contexō + -tus (forming action nouns).

Pronunciation

• contextus:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈtɛk.stʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈtɛk.stus]
• contextūs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔnˈtɛk.stuːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [konˈtɛk.stus]

Noun

contextus m (genitive contextūs); fourth declension

1. a weaving, knitting
2. a joining
3. connection, coherence
4. structure, fabric
5. context

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	contextus	contextūs
genitive	contextūs	contextuum
dative	contextuī	contextibus
accusative	contextum	contextūs
ablative	contextū	contextibus
vocative	contextus	contextūs

Descendants

• → Catalan: context
• → Italian: contesto
• → French: contexte
  • → Romanian: context (learned)
  • → Turkish: kontekst
• → Portuguese: contexto
• → Spanish: contexto
• → English: context

References

• “contextus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contextus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “contextus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “contextus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “contextus / contextŭs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the connection: contextus orationis (not nexus, conexus sententiarum)
    
• Forcellini, Egidio; Furlanetto, Giuseppe (ed.); Corradini, Francesco (ed.); and Perin, Giuseppe (ed.) (1733-1965). Lexicon Totius Latinitatis. Bologna: Arnaldo Forni. Vol. I. p. 834.