subtilis

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Latin

Etymology

From sub + tēla (“a web”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

subtīlis (neuter subtīle, comparative subtīlior, superlative subtīlissimus, adverb subtīliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. fine, thin, slender
  2. precise, accurate, keen
  3. (of speech) plain, unadorned, simple

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative subtīlis subtīle subtīlēs subtīlia
genitive subtīlis subtīlium
dative subtīlī subtīlibus
accusative subtīlem subtīle subtīlēs
subtīlīs 		subtīlia
ablative subtīlī subtīlibus
vocative subtīlis subtīle subtīlēs subtīlia

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “subtilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “subtilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • subtilis 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)
  • subtilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • sound knowledge; scholarship: doctrina exquisita, subtilis, elegans
    • good taste; delicate perception: iudicium subtile, elegans, exquisitum, intellegens
    • the plain style: verborum tenuitias, oratio subtilis
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