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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin classicus. Equivalent to klassiek + -icus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈklɑ.si.kʏs/
- Hyphenation: clas‧si‧cus
Noun
classicus m (plural classici, feminine classica)
- classicist
Coordinate terms
Latin
Etymology
From classis + -cus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
classicus (feminine classica, neuter classicum); first/second-declension adjective
- pertaining to the fleet (naval forces)
- Synonym of patricius: pertaining to the highest class of citizen
- Antonym: proletarius
c. 177 CE,
Aulus Gellius,
Noctes Atticae xix.8.15:
- Ite ergo nunc et, quando forte erit otium, quaerite, an "quadrigam" et "harenas" dixerit e cohorte illa dumtaxat antiquiore vel oratorum aliquis vel poetarum, id est classicus adsiduusque aliquis scriptor, non proletarius.
- So go now and inquire, when you chance to have leisure, whether any orator or poet, provided he be of that earlier band—that is to say, any classical or authoritative writer, not one of the common herd—has used "quadriga" or "harenae".
- (New Latin) classic, representative or exemplary of a class of things
- locus classicus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “classicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “classicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- classicus 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)
- classicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) the bugle, trumpet sounds before the general's tent: classicum or tuba canit ad praetorium
- (ambiguous) the trumpet sounds for the attack: classicum canit (B. C. 3. 82)
- “classicus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers