historicus
Dutch
Etymology
From historie + -icus.
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: his‧to‧ri‧cus
Noun
historicus m (plural historici)
- historian
Synonyms
- geschiedkundige
Latin
Alternative forms
- hystoricus (medieval)
Etymology
From historia (“history”) + -icus (“forming adjectives”), from Ancient Greek ἱστορικός (historikós, “exact; historical”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hisˈto.ri.kus/, [hɪs̠ˈt̪ɔrɪkʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /isˈto.ri.kus/, [isˈt̪ɔːrikus]
Adjective
historicus (feminine historica, neuter historicum); first/second-declension adjective
- historical
- 1826, Stanislaus Julien translating Mencius as Meng Tseu, p. 46:
- Ejus stylus, tunc historicus.
- [The Spring and Autumn Annals] are written in the historical style.
- Ejus stylus, tunc historicus.
- 1826, Stanislaus Julien translating Mencius as Meng Tseu, p. 46:
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | historicus | historica | historicum | historicī | historicae | historica | |
| Genitive | historicī | historicae | historicī | historicōrum | historicārum | historicōrum | |
| Dative | historicō | historicō | historicīs | ||||
| Accusative | historicum | historicam | historicum | historicōs | historicās | historica | |
| Ablative | historicō | historicā | historicō | historicīs | |||
| Vocative | historice | historica | historicum | historicī | historicae | historica | |
Descendants
- Catalan: històric
- → English: historic, historical
- French: historique
- Galician: histórico
- Italian: storico
- Occitan: istoric
- Piedmontese: stòrich
- Portuguese: histórico
- Romanian: istoric
- Spanish: histórico
References
- “historicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “historicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- historicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- historic times: historicorum fide contestata memoria
- historic times: historicorum fide contestata memoria