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German
Pronunciation
Adjective
eleganter
- comparative degree of elegant
Adjective
eleganter
- inflection of elegant:
- strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
- strong genitive/dative feminine singular
- strong genitive plural
Latin
Etymology
From ēlegāns (-antis).
Adverb
ēleganter (comparative ēlegantius, superlative ēlegantissimē)
- elegantly
References
- “eleganter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “eleganter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- eleganter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to arrange on strictly logical principles: ratione, eleganter (opp. nulla ratione, ineleganter, confuse) disponere aliquid
- to entertain, regale a person: accipere aliquem (bene, copiose, laute, eleganter, regio apparatu, apparatis epulis)
Swedish
Noun
eleganter
- indefinite plural of elegant