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ferrugineus
ferrugineus
Latin
Adjective
ferrūgineus m (feminine ferrūginea, neuter ferrūgineum); first/second declension
- Of the colour of iron rust (ferric oxide), dark red, ferruginous.
- Of the taste of iron.
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | ferrūgineus | ferrūginea | ferrūgineum | ferrūgineī | ferrūgineae | ferrūginea | |
| genitive | ferrūgineī | ferrūgineae | ferrūgineī | ferrūgineōrum | ferrūgineārum | ferrūgineōrum | |
| dative | ferrūgineō | ferrūgineō | ferrūgineīs | ||||
| accusative | ferrūgineum | ferrūgineam | ferrūgineum | ferrūgineōs | ferrūgineās | ferrūginea | |
| ablative | ferrūgineō | ferrūgineā | ferrūgineō | ferrūgineīs | |||
| vocative | ferrūginee | ferrūginea | ferrūgineum | ferrūgineī | ferrūgineae | ferrūginea | |
Related terms
Descendants
- English: ferruginous
References
- ferrugineus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ferrugineus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ferrugineus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.