minax
Latin
Etymology
From minor (“I jut forth, protrude, project”) + -āx.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmi.naːks/, [ˈmɪ.naːks]
Adjective
mināx (genitive minācis); third declension
- projecting, overhanging (jutting out)
- threatening, menacing
Inflection
Third declension.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | mināx | mināx | minācēs | minācia | |
Genitive | minācis | minācis | minācium | minācium | |
Dative | minācī | minācī | minācibus | minācibus | |
Accusative | minācem | mināx | minācēs | minācia | |
Ablative | minācī | minācī | minācibus | minācibus | |
Vocative | mināx | mināx | minācēs | minācia |
Descendants
- Catalan: amenaça
- Friulian: menace
- Italian: minace, minaccia
- Old French: manace, menace
- English: menace, minacious
- French: menace
- Norman: m'niche
- Old Portuguese: mẽaça, amẽaça
- Galician: ameaza
- Portuguese: ameaça, minaz
- Old Spanish: menaça, amenaça
- Ladino: amenasa
- Spanish: amenaza, menaza, minaz
- Papiamentu: amenasa
References
- minax in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- minax in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- minax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette