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Latin
Etymology
From dē- + clīvus (“slope”) + -is (adjective-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
dēclīvis (neuter dēclīve, comparative dēclīvior); third-declension two-termination adjective
- sloping or shelving (downwards)
- descending, downhill
- falling (stars)
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “declivis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “declivis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- declivis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a gentle ascent: collis leniter ab infimo acclivis (opp. leniter a summo declivis)