paganus
Latin
Etymology
From pāgus (“area outside of a city, countryside”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /paːˈɡaː.nus/, [päːˈɡäːnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /paˈɡa.nus/, [päˈɡäːnus]
Adjective
pāgānus (feminine pāgāna, neuter pāgānum); first/second-declension adjective
- Of or pertaining to the countryside, rural, rustic.
- (by extension) rustic, unlearned
- (in medieval Christian Latin) pagan, heathen
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | pāgānus | pāgāna | pāgānum | pāgānī | pāgānae | pāgāna | |
| Genitive | pāgānī | pāgānae | pāgānī | pāgānōrum | pāgānārum | pāgānōrum | |
| Dative | pāgānō | pāgānō | pāgānīs | ||||
| Accusative | pāgānum | pāgānam | pāgānum | pāgānōs | pāgānās | pāgāna | |
| Ablative | pāgānō | pāgānā | pāgānō | pāgānīs | |||
| Vocative | pāgāne | pāgāna | pāgānum | pāgānī | pāgānae | pāgāna | |
Derived terms
- pāgānismus
- pāgānitās
- sēmipāgānus
Related terms
- pāgānicus
- pāgātim
- pāgus
Descendants
- Anglo-Norman: paien
- Aromanian: pãngãn
- Asturian: paganu
- Catalan: pagà
- French: païen
- Friulian: paian, pajan
- Italian: pagano
- Megleno-Romanian: păgǫn
- Occitan: pagan
- Old Portuguese: pagão
- Galician: pagán
- Portuguese: pagão
- Romanian: păgân
- Sicilian: paganu
- Spanish: pagano
- Venetian: pagàn
Borrowings into other languages:
- → Albanian: pëganë, pëgërë, pagan
- → Czech: pohan
- → Polish: poganin
- → English: pagan
- → Estonian: pagan
- → Irish: págán
- → Old Church Slavonic: поганъ (poganŭ)
- → Old East Slavic: поганъ (poganŭ)
- Russian: поганый (poganyj)
- Ukrainian: поганий (pohanyj)
- → Serbo-Croatian: pogan
- → Hungarian: pogány
- → Romanian: pogan
- → Slovene: pohan
- → Turkish: pagan
- → Welsh: pagan
Noun
pāgānus m (genitive pāgānī); second declension
- villager, countryman
- civilian
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) heathen, pagan
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | pāgānus | pāgānī |
| Genitive | pāgānī | pāgānōrum |
| Dative | pāgānō | pāgānīs |
| Accusative | pāgānum | pāgānōs |
| Ablative | pāgānō | pāgānīs |
| Vocative | pāgāne | pāgānī |
References
- “paganus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “paganus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- paganus 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)
- paganus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “paganus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers