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supervacaneus
supervacaneus
Latin
Alternative forms
Adjective
supervacāneus m (feminine supervacānea, neuter supervacāneum); first/second declension
- above what is necessary, unnecessary, needless, superfluous, redundant
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | supervacāneus | supervacānea | supervacāneum | supervacāneī | supervacāneae | supervacānea | |
| genitive | supervacāneī | supervacāneae | supervacāneī | supervacāneōrum | supervacāneārum | supervacāneōrum | |
| dative | supervacāneō | supervacāneō | supervacāneīs | ||||
| accusative | supervacāneum | supervacāneam | supervacāneum | supervacāneōs | supervacāneās | supervacānea | |
| ablative | supervacāneō | supervacāneā | supervacāneō | supervacāneīs | |||
| vocative | supervacānee | supervacānea | supervacāneum | supervacāneī | supervacāneae | supervacānea | |
Synonyms
- (unnecessary, superfluous): supervacuus
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- English: supervacaneous
- Italian: supervacaneo
- Portuguese: supervacâneo
- Spanish: supervacáneo
References
- supervacaneus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- supervacaneus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “supervacaneus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.