simius

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siˈmius/
• Rhymes: -ius
• Syllabification: si‧mi‧us

Verb

simius

1. conditional of simii

Latin

Etymology

See sīmia (“ape, monkey”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.mi.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.mi.us]
• Hyphenation: sī‧mi‧us

Noun

sīmius m (genitive sīmiī or sīmī); second declension

1. ape, monkey

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sīmius	sīmiī
genitive	sīmiī sīmī1	sīmiōrum
dative	sīmiō	sīmiīs
accusative	sīmium	sīmiōs
ablative	sīmiō	sīmiīs
vocative	sīmie	sīmiī

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

• sīmia

Descendants

• Catalan: simi m
• Old French: singe m
  • French: singe
  • Franc-Comtois: sindge
  • Norman: sînge (Jersey)
  • Walloon: séndje
• Old Spanish: ximio m
  • Spanish: jimio m, → simio m
• Portuguese: símio m

See also sīmia.

References

• “simius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “simius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “simius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.