caelestis
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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From caelum (“heaven, sky”) + -estris, possibly influenced by the dissimilated agrestis in a coordinated phrase like "dī agrestēs caelestēs-que".
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kae̯ˈles.tis/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /t͡ʃeˈles.tis/,
Adjective
caelestis (neuter caeleste, comparative caelestior, superlative caelestissimus); third-declension two-termination adjective
- celestial, of or in the heavens, heavenly
- (figuratively) divine, of the gods
- (figuratively) magnificent, preeminent, god-like
- Synonyms: caeles, caelestīnus
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | caelestis | caeleste | caelestēs | caelestia | |
| genitive | caelestis caelestae |
caelestium caelestūm | |||
| dative | caelestī | caelestibus | |||
| accusative | caelestem | caeleste | caelestēs caelestīs |
caelestia | |
| ablative | caelestī caeleste |
caelestibus | |||
| vocative | caelestis | caeleste | caelestēs | caelestia | |
Derived terms
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Related terms
Descendants
- > Corsican: celestu, celeste, cilestu (inherited)
- >? Galician: xistra
- > Istriot: cialieste (inherited)
- > Catalan: celístia (inherited)
Borrowings:
- → Catalan: celeste (learned)
- → Galician: celeste (learned)
- → Gallurese: cilesti (learned)
- → Italian: celeste (learned)
- → Ligurian: celeste (learned)
- → Old French: celeste (learned)
- → Old Galician-Portuguese: celeste (learned)
- Portuguese: celeste
- Sardinian:
- → Spanish: celeste (learned)
- → Swedish: celest (learned)
- → Venetan: celeste, zheleste
Noun
caelestis m or f (genitive caelestis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | caelestis | caelestēs |
| genitive | caelestis | caelestium |
| dative | caelestī | caelestibus |
| accusative | caelestem | caelestēs caelestīs |
| ablative | caeleste | caelestibus |
| vocative | caelestis | caelestēs |
Further reading
- “caelestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caelestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caelestis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 238/3.
- caelestis in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, columns 900–901
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (1) the heavenly bodies, (2) celestial phenomena: caelestia
- astronomy: astrologia (pure Latin sidera, caelestia)
- an astronomer: spectator siderum, rerum caelestium or astrologus
- heavenly things; earthly things: supera et caelestia; humana et citerioria
- (1) the heavenly bodies, (2) celestial phenomena: caelestia