lubricus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *slouβrikos, from Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈluː.bri.kus/, [ˈɫ̪uːbrɪkʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlu.bri.kus/, [ˈluːbrikus]
Adjective
lūbricus (feminine lūbrica, neuter lūbricum); first/second-declension adjective
- slippery, slimy
- fleeting
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.475-476:
- mandantem amplectī cupiunt et bracchia tendunt:
lūbrica prēnsantēs effugit umbra manūs- [As he is] entrusting [his request to them], they long to embrace [him] and extend their arms: the fleeting shade eludes their grasping hands.
(The ghost of Remus appears to his foster-parents Faustulus and Acca Larentia; see also Romulus and Remus.)
- [As he is] entrusting [his request to them], they long to embrace [him] and extend their arms: the fleeting shade eludes their grasping hands.
- mandantem amplectī cupiunt et bracchia tendunt:
- inconstant
- deceitful
- 4th-century CE, Jerome of Stridon (St. Jerome), Vulgate, 26:28
- Lingua fallāx nōn amat vēritātem et os lūbricum operātur ruīnās.
- A deceitful tongue loveth not truth: and a slippery mouth worketh ruin.
- (trans.: Douay-Rheims Bible)
- A deceitful tongue loveth not truth: and a slippery mouth worketh ruin.
- Lingua fallāx nōn amat vēritātem et os lūbricum operātur ruīnās.
- 4th-century CE, Jerome of Stridon (St. Jerome), Vulgate, 26:28
- hazardous, unsteady
- tricky
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | lūbricus | lūbrica | lūbricum | lūbricī | lūbricae | lūbrica | |
| Genitive | lūbricī | lūbricae | lūbricī | lūbricōrum | lūbricārum | lūbricōrum | |
| Dative | lūbricō | lūbricō | lūbricīs | ||||
| Accusative | lūbricum | lūbricam | lūbricum | lūbricōs | lūbricās | lūbrica | |
| Ablative | lūbricō | lūbricā | lūbricō | lūbricīs | |||
| Vocative | lūbrice | lūbrica | lūbricum | lūbricī | lūbricae | lūbrica | |
Derived terms
- lūbricitās
- lūbricō
- lūbricum
Descendants
- Catalan: lúbric
- English: lubric
- French: lubrique
- Galician: lúbrico
- Italian: lubrico
- Occitan: lubric
- Portuguese: lúbrico, lôbrego
- Spanish: lúbrico, lóbrego
References
- “lubricus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lubricus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lubricus 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)
- lubricus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette