scurrilis

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Latin

Etymology

From scurra (“jester, joker”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

scurrīlis (neuter scurrīle); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. buffoonlike, scurrilous

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative scurrīlis scurrīle scurrīlēs scurrīlia
genitive scurrīlis scurrīlium
dative scurrīlī scurrīlibus
accusative scurrīlem scurrīle scurrīlēs
scurrīlīs 		scurrīlia
ablative scurrīlī scurrīlibus
vocative scurrīlis scurrīle scurrīlēs scurrīlia

Descendants

Further reading

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