oecumenicus
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek οἰκουμενικός (oikoumenikós, “from or open to the whole world”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /oe̯.kuːˈme.ni.kus/, [oe̯kuːˈmɛnɪkʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.kuˈme.ni.kus/, [ekuˈmɛːnikus]
Adjective
oecūmenicus (feminine oecūmenica, neuter oecūmenicum); first/second-declension adjective
- (Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) Of or pertaining to whole inhabited world; ecumenical.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | oecūmenicus | oecūmenica | oecūmenicum | oecūmenicī | oecūmenicae | oecūmenica | |
| Genitive | oecūmenicī | oecūmenicae | oecūmenicī | oecūmenicōrum | oecūmenicārum | oecūmenicōrum | |
| Dative | oecūmenicō | oecūmenicō | oecūmenicīs | ||||
| Accusative | oecūmenicum | oecūmenicam | oecūmenicum | oecūmenicōs | oecūmenicās | oecūmenica | |
| Ablative | oecūmenicō | oecūmenicā | oecūmenicō | oecūmenicīs | |||
| Vocative | oecūmenice | oecūmenica | oecūmenicum | oecūmenicī | oecūmenicae | oecūmenica | |
Derived terms
- concilium oecūmenicum
Related terms
- oeconomia
- oeconomicus
- oeconomus
- oecūmenē
- oecus
Descendants
- → English: ecumenic, ecumenical
- →? Polish: ekumeniczny
- → French: œcuménique
- → Hungarian: ökumenikus
- → Italian: ecumenico
- → Portuguese: ecuménico
- → Romanian: ecumenic
- → Spanish: ecuménico
References
- oecumenicus 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)
- Souter, Alexander (1949), “oecūmenicus”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D., 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 275