adasia
Latin
Etymology
Unknown, possibly from a pre-Roman substrate of the Balkans; compare Albanian dash.[1]
Noun
adasia f (genitive adasiae); first declension
- An old sheep that has recently given birth to a lamb
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | adasia | adasiae |
| Genitive | adasiae | adasiārum |
| Dative | adasiae | adasiīs |
| Accusative | adasiam | adasiās |
| Ablative | adasiā | adasiīs |
| Vocative | adasia | adasiae |
References
- “adasia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- adasia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Kaczyńska, Elwira (2005), “Latin adasia ‘lamb’, Roumanian daş, Albanian dash”, in Linguistique Balkanique, volume 44, issue 3, pages 247–50