mundanus

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Latin

Etymology

mundus +‎ -ānus

Pronunciation

Adjective

mundānus (feminine mundāna, neuter mundānum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. worldly, mundane
  2. cosmopolitan

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative mundānus mundāna mundānum mundānī mundānae mundāna
Genitive mundānī mundānae mundānī mundānōrum mundānārum mundānōrum
Dative mundānō mundānō mundānīs
Accusative mundānum mundānam mundānum mundānōs mundānās mundāna
Ablative mundānō mundānā mundānō mundānīs
Vocative mundāne mundāna mundānum mundānī mundānae mundāna

Derived terms

Descendants

  • French: mondain
  • Italian: mondano
  • Portuguese: mundano
  • Romanian: mundan
  • Spanish: mundano

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)