agrestis

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Latin

Etymology

For *agrestris, from ager (“field, farm”) +‎ -estris (“located, dwelling in”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

agrestis (neuter agreste); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to land, fields or the countryside; rural, rustic, wild.
  2. Clownish, rude, uncultivated, coarse, savage, barbarous; brutish, wild.

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative agrestis agreste agrestēs agrestia
genitive agrestis agrestium
dative agrestī agrestibus
accusative agrestem agreste agrestēs
agrestīs 		agrestia
ablative agrestī agrestibus
vocative agrestis agreste agrestēs agrestia

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References

  • “agrestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “agrestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • agrestis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Palmer, L.R. (1906) The Latin Language, London, Faber and Faber
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