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Acephalus
ACEPH'ALUS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
acephalus
acephalus
Latin
Alternative forms
Adjective
acephalus m (feminine acephala, neuter acephalum); first/second declension
- Without a head, chief or leader.
- Of a hexameter which begins with a short syllable.
- An Acephalite or Paulician, a member of an early Christian gnostic heresy
- Hoc tempore eadem acephalorum heresis sub anathemate condemnatur.
- At the same time [as the reign of Justinian, son of Heraclius], the headless ones' heresy was condemned with anathema. — Bede, Chronica Minor
- Hoc tempore eadem acephalorum heresis sub anathemate condemnatur.
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | acephalus | acephala | acephalum | acephalī | acephalae | acephala | |
| genitive | acephalī | acephalae | acephalī | acephalōrum | acephalārum | acephalōrum | |
| dative | acephalō | acephalō | acephalīs | ||||
| accusative | acephalum | acephalam | acephalum | acephalōs | acephalās | acephala | |
| ablative | acephalō | acephalā | acephalō | acephalīs | |||
| vocative | acephale | acephala | acephalum | acephalī | acephalae | acephala | |
References
- acephalus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “acephalus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.