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meretricius
meretricius
Latin
Adjective
meretrīcius m (feminine meretrīcia, neuter meretrīcium); first/second declension
- Of or pertaining to prostitutes, meretricious.
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | meretrīcius | meretrīcia | meretrīcium | meretrīciī | meretrīciae | meretrīcia | |
| genitive | meretrīciī | meretrīciae | meretrīciī | meretrīciōrum | meretrīciārum | meretrīciōrum | |
| dative | meretrīciō | meretrīciō | meretrīciīs | ||||
| accusative | meretrīcium | meretrīciam | meretrīcium | meretrīciōs | meretrīciās | meretrīcia | |
| ablative | meretrīciō | meretrīciā | meretrīciō | meretrīciīs | |||
| vocative | meretrīcie | meretrīcia | meretrīcium | meretrīciī | meretrīciae | meretrīcia | |
Related terms
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Descendants
- English: meretricious
- Italian: meretricio
- Portuguese: meretrício
- Spanish: meretricio
References
- meretricius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- meretricius in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “meretricius”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.