Latin

Adjective

ēlegāns m, f, n ‎(genitive ēlegantis); third declension

1. fine, elegant, handsome
2. tasteful
3. fastidious, critical
4. discriminating, polite

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• English: elegant
• Portuguese: elegante
• Spanish: elegante
• Swedish: elegans

References

• elegans in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• elegans in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “elegans”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a fine, practised ear: aures elegantes, teretes, tritae (De Or. 9. 27)
    
  • sound knowledge; scholarship: doctrina exquisita, subtilis, elegans
    
  • good taste; delicate perception: iudicium subtile, elegans, exquisitum, intellegens
    
  • (ambiguous) logical minuteness, precision: disserendi elegantia
    
  • (ambiguous) he possesses sound judgment in matters of taste: elegantia in illo est
    
  • (ambiguous) tasteful description: elegantia orationis