enormis
Latin
Etymology
From ex- + nōrma + -is.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /eːˈnoːr.mis/, [eːˈnoːrmɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eˈnor.mis/, [eˈnɔrmis]
Adjective
ēnōrmis (neuter ēnōrme); third-declension two-termination adjective
- irregular, unusual
- enormous, immense
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | ēnōrmis | ēnōrme | ēnōrmēs | ēnōrmia | |
| Genitive | ēnōrmis | ēnōrmium | |||
| Dative | ēnōrmī | ēnōrmibus | |||
| Accusative | ēnōrmem | ēnōrme | ēnōrmēs ēnōrmīs | ēnōrmia | |
| Ablative | ēnōrmī | ēnōrmibus | |||
| Vocative | ēnōrmis | ēnōrme | ēnōrmēs | ēnōrmia | |
Descendants
- Catalan: enorme
- Dutch: enorm
- English: enormous
- Esperanto: enorma
- French: énorme
- Galician: enorme
- German: enorm
- Italian: enorme
- Norman: ênorme
- Middle French: enorme
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: enorm
- Norwegian Nynorsk: enorm
- Occitan: enòrme
- Portuguese: enorme
- Romanian: enorm
- Sicilian: enormi
- Spanish: enorme
- Swedish: enorm
References
- “enormis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “enormis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- enormis 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)
- enormis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- enormis in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016