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mastichinus
mastichinus
Latin
Adjective
mastichinus m (feminine mastichina, neuter mastichinum); first/second declension
- of or belonging to the mastic tree
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | mastichinus | mastichina | mastichinum | mastichinī | mastichinae | mastichina | |
| genitive | mastichinī | mastichinae | mastichinī | mastichinōrum | mastichinārum | mastichinōrum | |
| dative | mastichinō | mastichinō | mastichinīs | ||||
| accusative | mastichinum | mastichinam | mastichinum | mastichinōs | mastichinās | mastichina | |
| ablative | mastichinō | mastichinā | mastichinō | mastichinīs | |||
| vocative | mastichine | mastichina | mastichinum | mastichinī | mastichinae | mastichina | |
Related terms
Sard. lustinchinu < Lentiscus is formed analogically after mastichinus <Greek μαστίχα - the same tree.
Descendants
- Albanian: mështekër (“birch”)
- Aromanian: misteacãn (“birch”)
- Romanian: mesteacăn (“birch”)
- Sicilian: mastigona (“piney thistle”)
References
- mastichinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mastichinus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.