mendicus

Latin

Etymology

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Latin menda

Proto-Indo-European *-kosder.

Latin -īcus

Latin mendīcus

From menda (“physical defect, fault”) + -īcus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɛnˈdiː.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [menˈdiː.kus]

Adjective

mendīcus (feminine mendīca, neuter mendīcum, superlative mendīcissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. beggarly, needy, indigent

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	mendīcus	mendīca	mendīcum		mendīcī	mendīcae	mendīca
genitive	mendīcī	mendīcae	mendīcī		mendīcōrum	mendīcārum	mendīcōrum
dative	mendīcō	mendīcae	mendīcō		mendīcīs
accusative	mendīcum	mendīcam	mendīcum		mendīcōs	mendīcās	mendīca
ablative	mendīcō	mendīcā	mendīcō		mendīcīs
vocative	mendīce	mendīca	mendīcum		mendīcī	mendīcae	mendīca

Derived terms

• mendīcitās
• mendīcō

Descendants

• Asturian: méndigu
• Galician: mendigo
• Italian: mendico
• Portuguese: mendigo
• Spanish: mendigo

Noun

mendīcus m (genitive mendīcī); second declension

1. beggar, mendicant

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	mendīcus	mendīcī
genitive	mendīcī	mendīcōrum
dative	mendīcō	mendīcīs
accusative	mendīcum	mendīcōs
ablative	mendīcō	mendīcīs
vocative	mendīce	mendīcī

References

• “mendicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mendicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mendicus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “mendicus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers