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mendicus

mendicus

Latin

Adjective

mendīcus m ‎(feminine mendīca, neuter mendīcum); first/second declension

beggarly, needy, indigent

Inflection

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular				Plural
nominative	mendīcus	mendīca	mendīcum		mendīcī	mendīcae	mendīca
genitive	mendīcī	mendīcae	mendīcī		mendīcōrum	mendīcārum	mendīcōrum
dative	mendīcō	mendīcae	mendīcō		mendīcīs
accusative	mendīcum	mendīcam	mendīcum		mendīcōs	mendīcās	mendīca
ablative	mendīcō	mendīcā	mendīcō		mendīcīs
vocative	mendīce	mendīca	mendīcum		mendīcī	mendīcae	mendīca

Related terms

mendīcō

Descendants

Asturian: méndigu
Galician: mendigo
Italian: mendico
Portuguese: mendigo
Spanish: mendigo

References

mendicus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
mendicus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mendicus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
mendicus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers