masculus

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From mās ("male", obl. stem marem) +‎ -culus (diminutive ending).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmas.ku.lus/,
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmas.ku.lus/,
  • Note: the /a/ of this word is presumed to be short as in the oblique stem of the base word, and not long as in the nominative, since word-formation operates on the former.

Adjective

masculus (feminine mascula, neuter masculum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. male, masculine
  2. manly, virile
  3. Used of the larger and coarser varieties of plants or other natural products
  4. (engineering) a male connector

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative masculus mascula masculum masculī masculae mascula
Genitive masculī masculae masculī masculōrum masculārum masculōrum
Dative masculō masculō masculīs
Accusative masculum masculam masculum masculōs masculās mascula
Ablative masculō masculā masculō masculīs
Vocative mascule mascula masculum masculī masculae mascula

Noun

masculus m (genitive masculī); second declension

  1. a male (of humans or other animals)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative masculus masculī
Genitive masculī masculōrum
Dative masculō masculīs
Accusative masculum masculōs
Ablative masculō masculīs
Vocative mascule masculī

Derived terms

Descendants

(Most inherited Romance reflexes derive from a syncopated variant masclus, attested in the Appendix Probi.)

References

Further reading

  • “masculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “masculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • masculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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