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paganus
paganus
Latin
Adjective
pāgānus m (feminine pāgāna, neuter pāgānum); first/second declension
- Of or pertaining to the countryside, rural, rustic.
- (by extension) rustic, unlearned
- (substantive) villager, countryman
- (substantive) civilian
- (substantive, Ecclesiastical Latin) heathen, pagan
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | pāgānus | pāgāna | pāgānum | pāgānī | pāgānae | pāgāna | |
| genitive | pāgānī | pāgānae | pāgānī | pāgānōrum | pāgānārum | pāgānōrum | |
| dative | pāgānō | pāgānō | pāgānīs | ||||
| accusative | pāgānum | pāgānam | pāgānum | pāgānōs | pāgānās | pāgāna | |
| ablative | pāgānō | pāgānā | pāgānō | pāgānīs | |||
| vocative | pāgāne | pāgāna | pāgānum | pāgānī | pāgānae | pāgāna | |
Derived terms
- pāgānismus
- pāgānitās
- sēmipāgānus
Related terms
Descendants
References
- paganus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- paganus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- PAGANUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “paganus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- paganus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers