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magnificus
magnificus
Latin
Adjective
māgnificus m (feminine māgnifica, neuter māgnificum); first/second declension
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | māgnificus | māgnifica | māgnificum | māgnificī | māgnificae | māgnifica | |
| genitive | māgnificī | māgnificae | māgnificī | māgnificōrum | māgnificārum | māgnificōrum | |
| dative | māgnificō | māgnificō | māgnificīs | ||||
| accusative | māgnificum | māgnificam | māgnificum | māgnificōs | māgnificās | māgnifica | |
| ablative | māgnificō | māgnificā | māgnificō | māgnificīs | |||
| vocative | māgnifice | māgnifica | māgnificum | māgnificī | māgnificae | māgnifica | |
- comparative: magnificentior, superlative: magnificentissimus
References
- magnificus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- magnificus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- MAGNIFICUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “magnificus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to study the commonplace: cogitationes in res humiles abicere (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. alte spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum suspicere)
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(ambiguous) (1) to speak vehemently, passionately; (2) to speak pompously, boastfully: magnifice loqui, dicere
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(ambiguous) to prepare, give a feast, dinner: convivium instruere, apparare, ornare (magnifice, splendide)
- to study the commonplace: cogitationes in res humiles abicere (De Amic. 9. 32) (Opp. alte spectare, ad altiora tendere, altum, magnificum, divinum suspicere)