frivolus
Latin
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreyH- (“to scrape, pierce”), the root also of Latin friō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfriː.u̯o.lus/, [ˈfriːu̯ɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfri.vo.lus/, [ˈfriːvolus]
Adjective
frīvolus (feminine frīvola, neuter frīvolum); first/second-declension adjective
- silly, empty, trifling, frivolous, worthless
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | frīvolus | frīvola | frīvolum | frīvolī | frīvolae | frīvola | |
| Genitive | frīvolī | frīvolae | frīvolī | frīvolōrum | frīvolārum | frīvolōrum | |
| Dative | frīvolō | frīvolō | frīvolīs | ||||
| Accusative | frīvolum | frīvolam | frīvolum | frīvolōs | frīvolās | frīvola | |
| Ablative | frīvolō | frīvolā | frīvolō | frīvolīs | |||
| Vocative | frīvole | frīvola | frīvolum | frīvolī | frīvolae | frīvola | |
Derived terms
- frīvola
- frīvolē
Descendants
- Occitan: frévor (Queyras)
- → Catalan: frívol
- → English: frivolous
- → French: frivole
- → German: frivol
- → Italian: frivolo
- → Portuguese: frívolo
- → Spanish: frívolo
References
- “frivolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “frivolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- frivolus 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)
- frivolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette