clandestinus
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom an earlier adverb *clam-de (“secretly”) (from clam and *-de, also seen in unde, etc.), converted to an adjective by analogy to intestīnus.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /klan.desˈtiː.nus/, [kɫ̪än̪d̪ɛs̠ˈt̪iːnʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /klan.desˈti.nus/, [klän̪d̪esˈt̪iːnus]
Adjective
editclandestīnus (feminine clandestīna, neuter clandestīnum); first/second-declension adjective
- clandestine, secret, concealed
- Synonyms: obscūrus, sēcrētus, arcānus, occultus
- Antonyms: conspicuus, manifestus
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | clandestīnus | clandestīna | clandestīnum | clandestīnī | clandestīnae | clandestīna | |
| genitive | clandestīnī | clandestīnae | clandestīnī | clandestīnōrum | clandestīnārum | clandestīnōrum | |
| dative | clandestīnō | clandestīnae | clandestīnō | clandestīnīs | |||
| accusative | clandestīnum | clandestīnam | clandestīnum | clandestīnōs | clandestīnās | clandestīna | |
| ablative | clandestīnō | clandestīnā | clandestīnō | clandestīnīs | |||
| vocative | clandestīne | clandestīna | clandestīnum | clandestīnī | clandestīnae | clandestīna | |
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- → Catalan: clandestí
- → English: clandestine
- → French: clandestin
- → German: klandestin
- → Italian: clandestino
- → Portuguese: clandestino
- → Romanian: clandestin
- → Spanish: clandestino
References
edit- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 117: “clam”
- “clandestinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “clandestinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- clandestinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- clandestinus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung