mendicus

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Latin

Etymology

From menda (“physical defect, fault”) +‎ -icus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

mendīcus (feminine mendīca, neuter mendīcum, superlative mendīcissimus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. beggarly, needy, indigent

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative mendīcus mendīca mendīcum mendīcī mendīcae mendīca
Genitive mendīcī mendīcae mendīcī mendīcōrum mendīcārum mendīcōrum
Dative mendīcō mendīcō mendīcīs
Accusative mendīcum mendīcam mendīcum mendīcōs mendīcās mendīca
Ablative mendīcō mendīcā mendīcō mendīcīs
Vocative mendīce mendīca mendīcum mendīcī mendīcae mendīca

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Asturian: méndigu
  • Galician: mendigo
  • Italian: mendico
  • Portuguese: mendigo
  • Spanish: mendigo

Noun

mendīcus m (genitive mendīcī); second declension

  1. beggar, mendicant

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mendīcus mendīcī
Genitive mendīcī mendīcōrum
Dative mendīcō mendīcīs
Accusative mendīcum mendīcōs
Ablative mendīcō mendīcīs
Vocative mendīce mendīcī

References

  • “mendicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mendicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mendicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “mendicus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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