mordax
Latin
Etymology
From mordeō (“I bite”) + -āx (“inclined to”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmor.daːks/, [ˈmɔrd̪äːks̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmor.daks/, [ˈmɔrd̪äks]
Adjective
mordāx (genitive mordācis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- biting; snappish; tart
- cutting
- caustic
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mordāx | mordācēs | mordācia | ||
| Genitive | mordācis | mordācium | |||
| Dative | mordācī | mordācibus | |||
| Accusative | mordācem | mordāx | mordācēs | mordācia | |
| Ablative | mordācī | mordācibus | |||
| Vocative | mordāx | mordācēs | mordācia | ||
Derived terms
- mordācitās
Descendants
- Catalan: mordaç
- English: mordacious
- French: mordache
- Galician: mordaz
- Italian: mordace, mordacchia
- Portuguese: mordaz, mordaça
- Spanish: mordaz, mordaza
- Translingual: Mordacia
References
- “mordax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mordax”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mordax 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)
- mordax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette