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firmus
firmus
Latin
Adjective
fīrmus m (feminine fīrma, neuter fīrmum); first/second declension
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | fīrmus | fīrma | fīrmum | fīrmī | fīrmae | fīrma | |
| genitive | fīrmī | fīrmae | fīrmī | fīrmōrum | fīrmārum | fīrmōrum | |
| dative | fīrmō | fīrmō | fīrmīs | ||||
| accusative | fīrmum | fīrmam | fīrmum | fīrmōs | fīrmās | fīrma | |
| ablative | fīrmō | fīrmā | fīrmō | fīrmīs | |||
| vocative | fīrme | fīrma | fīrmum | fīrmī | fīrmae | fīrma | |
- comparative: fīrmior, superlative: fīrmissimus
Synonyms
- (stable, strong): dūrus
Related terms
Descendants
References
- firmus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- firmus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “firmus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a strong, striking proof: argumentum firmum, magnum
- a strong, striking proof: argumentum firmum, magnum
- firmus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- firmus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016