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Latin
Etymology
From burgus (“fort; walled town; borough”) + -ēnsis (forming locative adjectives).
Pronunciation
Adjective
burgēnsis (neuter burgēnse); third-declension two-termination adjective (Medieval Latin)
- pertaining to a castle
- pertaining to a town or city
- having the status of a citizen
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Descendants
Noun
burgēnsis m or f (genitive burgēnsis); third declension (Medieval Latin)
- townsman, resident of a town or city
- citizen, i.e. a person with the rights and obligations of citizenship
- town councillor or senator, patrician
- inhabitant of a fortified rural settlement
- (generally) inhabitant of any specific place, such as a street or a pasture
- (England) burgess (parliamentary representative of a borough)
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
References
- burgensis 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)
- burgensis in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “burgensis”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “burgensis”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 108
- burgensis in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016