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Latin
Etymology
Possibly from older *quirītis with syncope of the vowel. See Quirītēs.
Pronunciation
Noun
Quirīs m (genitive Quirītis); third declension
- The endonym of the Romans in their civil capacity, while Rōmānus referred to them in a political and military capacity.
- (very rare, poetic) an inhabitant of the Sabine town, Cures
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem or imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Descendants
References
- ^ Philomen Probert (2019 June 27) Latin Grammarians on the Latin Accent: The Transformation of Greek Grammatical Thought, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 221-231
Further reading
- “Quiris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Quiris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Quiris in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Quiris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.