veteranus

Latin

Alternative forms

• vetrānus (Late or Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

From vetus, veteris (“old, aged”) +‎ -ānus (adjective-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯e.teˈraː.nus/, [u̯ɛt̪ɛˈräːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ve.teˈra.nus/, [vet̪eˈräːnus]

Adjective

veterānus (feminine veterāna, neuter veterānum); first/second-declension adjective

1. old, veteran

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	veterānus	veterāna	veterānum		veterānī	veterānae	veterāna
genitive	veterānī	veterānae	veterānī		veterānōrum	veterānārum	veterānōrum
dative	veterānō	veterānae	veterānō		veterānīs
accusative	veterānum	veterānam	veterānum		veterānōs	veterānās	veterāna
ablative	veterānō	veterānā	veterānō		veterānīs
vocative	veterāne	veterāna	veterānum		veterānī	veterānae	veterāna

Related terms

• vetus

Descendants

Inherited

• Aromanian: bitãrnu, bitrãn
• Dalmatian: vetrun
• Friulian: vedran
• Galician: vedraño
• Istro-Romanian: betăr
• Megleno-Romanian: bitǫrnă
• Romanian: bătrân
• Sicilian: vitiranu, vitranu
• Venetan: vetrano

Borrowed

• → Catalan: veterà
• → Middle French: vétéran
  • French: vétéran
    • → Romanian: veteran
  • → English: veteran
• → German: Veteran
• → Ancient Greek: οὐετερανός (oueteranós), οὐετρανός (ouetranós), βετεράνος (beterános), βετράνος (betrános)
  • Greek: βετεράνος (veterános)
  • → Aramaic:

    Hatran Aramaic: 𐣠𐣥𐣨𐣣𐣭𐣠 (ʾuwəṭrānā)

    Palmyrene Aramaic: 𐡥𐡨𐡴𐡮𐡠 (wəṭrānā)

    Classical Syriac: ܐܷܘܛܪܳܢܳܐ (ʾewəṭrānā), ܘܛܪܳܢܳܐ (wəṭrānā)

• → Italian: veterano
• → Portuguese: veterano
• → Spanish: veterano

References

• “veteranus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “veteranus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• veteranus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • veterans; experienced troops: vetus miles, veteranus miles