angelicus
Latin
Etymology
Late Latin; from angelus (“angel”) + -icus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /anˈɡe.li.kus/, [äŋˈɡɛlʲɪkʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /anˈd͡ʒe.li.kus/, [än̠ʲˈd͡ʒɛːlikus]
Adjective
angelicus (feminine angelica, neuter angelicum); first/second-declension adjective
- Of or pertaining to angels; angelic
- 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 12.1:
- Sicut ergo, cum uitium oculorum dicitur caecitas, id ostenditur, quod ad naturam oculorum pertinet uisus; et cum uitium aurium dicitur surditas, ad earum naturam pertinere demonstratur auditus: ita, cum uitium creaturae angelicae dicitur, quo non adhaeret Deo, hinc apertissime declaratur, eius naturae ut Deo adhaereat conuenire.
- As, then, when we say that blindness is a defect of the eyes, we prove that sight belongs to the nature of the eyes; and when we say that deafness is a defect of the ears, hearing is thereby proved to belong to their nature;—so, when we say that it is a fault of the angelic creature that it does not cleave to God, we hereby most plainly declare that it pertained to its nature to cleave to God.
- Sicut ergo, cum uitium oculorum dicitur caecitas, id ostenditur, quod ad naturam oculorum pertinet uisus; et cum uitium aurium dicitur surditas, ad earum naturam pertinere demonstratur auditus: ita, cum uitium creaturae angelicae dicitur, quo non adhaeret Deo, hinc apertissime declaratur, eius naturae ut Deo adhaereat conuenire.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | angelicus | angelica | angelicum | angelicī | angelicae | angelica | |
| Genitive | angelicī | angelicae | angelicī | angelicōrum | angelicārum | angelicōrum | |
| Dative | angelicō | angelicō | angelicīs | ||||
| Accusative | angelicum | angelicam | angelicum | angelicōs | angelicās | angelica | |
| Ablative | angelicō | angelicā | angelicō | angelicīs | |||
| Vocative | angelice | angelica | angelicum | angelicī | angelicae | angelica | |
Derived terms
- vox angelica
Related terms
- angelus
Descendants
- Catalan: angèlic
- Italian: angelico
- → Maltese: anġeliku
- Old French: angélique
- French: angélique
- → Middle English: angelik
- English: angelic
- Portuguese: angélico
- Spanish: angélico
- → Translingual: Angelica
References
- “angelicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- angelicus 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)
- angelicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette