iosanus

Latin

Alternative forms

• iossānus, iūsanus

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin iōsum

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Italic *-nosder.

Proto-Italic *-ānos

Latin -ānus

Latin iōsānus

From iōsum (“down”) + -ānus (adjective-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈjɔ.sa.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈjɔː.s̬a.nus]

Adjective

iōsānus (feminine iōsāna, neuter iōsānum); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)

1. lower

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	iōsānus	iōsāna	iōsānum		iōsānī	iōsānae	iōsāna
genitive	iōsānī	iōsānae	iōsānī		iōsānōrum	iōsānārum	iōsānōrum
dative	iōsānō	iōsānae	iōsānō		iōsānīs
accusative	iōsānum	iōsānam	iōsānum		iōsānōs	iōsānās	iōsāna
ablative	iōsānō	iōsānā	iōsānō		iōsānīs
vocative	iōsāne	iōsāna	iōsānum		iōsānī	iōsānae	iōsāna

Descendants

Reflexes of the variant iūsānus:

• Old Catalan: jusà, jussà
• Old Occitan: juzan
• Old Spanish: yusano
• ⇒ French: jusant

References

• “iōsānus” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “josanus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC