mundanus
Latin
Etymology
mundus + -ānus
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /munˈdaː.nus/, [mʊn̪ˈd̪äːnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /munˈda.nus/, [mun̪ˈd̪äːnus]
Adjective
mundānus (feminine mundāna, neuter mundānum); first/second-declension adjective
- worldly, mundane
- cosmopolitan
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mundānus | mundāna | mundānum | mundānī | mundānae | mundāna | |
| Genitive | mundānī | mundānae | mundānī | mundānōrum | mundānārum | mundānōrum | |
| Dative | mundānō | mundānō | mundānīs | ||||
| Accusative | mundānum | mundānam | mundānum | mundānōs | mundānās | mundāna | |
| Ablative | mundānō | mundānā | mundānō | mundānīs | |||
| Vocative | mundāne | mundāna | mundānum | mundānī | mundānae | mundāna | |
Derived terms
- ultrāmundānus (Late Latin)
Descendants
- → French: mondain
- → Italian: mondano
- → Spanish: mundano
References
- “mundanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mundanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mundanus 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)
- mundanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a citizen of the world; cosmopolitan: mundanus, mundi civis et incola (Tusc. 5. 37)
- a citizen of the world; cosmopolitan: mundanus, mundi civis et incola (Tusc. 5. 37)