Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
linearis. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
linearis, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
linearis in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
linearis you have here. The definition of the word
linearis will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
linearis, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From līnea (“line”) + āris. Doublet of līneālis.
The post-Classical sense of "having the form of a line" is likely a back-formation from the adverbial form līneāriter (literally “using a line or lines”), which (along with līneāliter) was often used with verbs of motion, resulting in reanalysis as "like a line", from which follows the adjectival sense "line-like".
Adjective
līneāris (neuter līneāre, adverb līneāriter); third-declension two-termination adjective
- line-; lineal; consisting of lines; pertaining to lines
- Synonyms: līneālis, līneārius
- pictūra līneāris ― line painting
- līneāris ratiō ― geometry (literally, “line theory”)
- līneāris probātiō ― line-based proof
- (Late Latin) linear; line-like; having the form of a line
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Inflected form of līneō.
Verb
līneāris
- second-person singular present passive indicative of līneō
References
- “linearis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “linearis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.