desiderabilis
Latin
Etymology
From dēsīderō + -bilis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /deː.siː.deˈraː.bi.lis/, [d̪eːs̠iːd̪ɛˈräːbɪlʲɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /de.si.deˈra.bi.lis/, [d̪es̬id̪eˈräːbilis]
Adjective
dēsīderābilis (neuter dēsīderābile); third-declension two-termination adjective
- desirable, wanted
- missed (of the dead)
- regretted
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | dēsīderābilis | dēsīderābile | dēsīderābilēs | dēsīderābilia | |
| Genitive | dēsīderābilis | dēsīderābilium | |||
| Dative | dēsīderābilī | dēsīderābilibus | |||
| Accusative | dēsīderābilem | dēsīderābile | dēsīderābilēs dēsīderābilīs | dēsīderābilia | |
| Ablative | dēsīderābilī | dēsīderābilibus | |||
| Vocative | dēsīderābilis | dēsīderābile | dēsīderābilēs | dēsīderābilia | |
Descendants
- Italian: desiderabile
References
- “desiderabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “desiderabilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- desiderabilis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- desiderabilis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- desiderabilis in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016