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subtilis
subtilis
Latin
Adjective
subtīlis m, f (neuter subtīle); third declension
- fine, thin, slender
- precise, accurate, keen
- (of speech) plain, unadorned, simple
- (New Latin) Used as a species epithet.
Inflection
Third declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| nominative | subtīlis | subtīle | subtīlēs | subtīlia | |
| genitive | subtīlis | subtīlium | |||
| dative | subtīlī | subtīlibus | |||
| accusative | subtīlem | subtīle | subtīlēs | subtīlia | |
| ablative | subtīlī | subtīlibus | |||
| vocative | subtīlis | subtīle | subtīlēs | subtīlia | |
Derived terms
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Descendants
References
- subtilis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- subtilis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- SUBTILIS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “subtilis”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- sound knowledge; scholarship: doctrina exquisita, subtilis, elegans
- good taste; delicate perception: iudicium subtile, elegans, exquisitum, intellegens
- the plain style: verborum tenuitias, oratio subtilis
- sound knowledge; scholarship: doctrina exquisita, subtilis, elegans