clandestinus
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From an earlier adverb *clam-de (“secretly”) (from clam and *-de, also seen in unde, etc.), converted to an adjective by analogy to intestīnus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /klan.desˈtiː.nus/, [kɫ̪än̪d̪ɛs̠ˈt̪iːnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /klan.desˈti.nus/, [klän̪d̪esˈt̪iːnus]
Adjective
[edit]clandestīnus (feminine clandestīna, neuter clandestīnum); first/second-declension adjective
- clandestine, secret, concealed
- Synonyms: obscūrus, sēcrētus, arcānus, occultus
- Antonyms: conspicuus, manifestus
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | clandestīnus | clandestīna | clandestīnum | clandestīnī | clandestīnae | clandestīna | |
| Genitive | clandestīnī | clandestīnae | clandestīnī | clandestīnōrum | clandestīnārum | clandestīnōrum | |
| Dative | clandestīnō | clandestīnō | clandestīnīs | ||||
| Accusative | clandestīnum | clandestīnam | clandestīnum | clandestīnōs | clandestīnās | clandestīna | |
| Ablative | clandestīnō | clandestīnā | clandestīnō | clandestīnīs | |||
| Vocative | clandestīne | clandestīna | clandestīnum | clandestīnī | clandestīnae | clandestīna | |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: clandestí
- → English: clandestine
- → French: clandestin
- → German: klandestin
- → Italian: clandestino
- → Portuguese: clandestino
- → Romanian: clandestin
- → Spanish: clandestino
References
[edit]- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 117: “clam”
- “clandestinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “clandestinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- clandestinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- clandestinus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung