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Latin
Etymology
mundus + -ānus
Pronunciation
Adjective
mundānus (feminine mundāna, neuter mundānum); first/second-declension adjective
- worldly, mundane
- cosmopolitan
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “mundanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mundanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mundanus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- mundanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a citizen of the world; cosmopolitan: mundanus, mundi civis et incola (Tusc. 5. 37)