passivus
Latin
Etymology
From patior (“to endure”) + -īvus (adjective suffix). In the grammatical sense, it is a calque of Ancient Greek παθητικός (pathētikós).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pasˈsiː.u̯us/, [päs̠ˈs̠iːu̯ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pasˈsi.vus/, [päsˈsiːvus]
Adjective
passīvus (feminine passīva, neuter passīvum, adverb passīvē); first/second-declension adjective
- subject to passion or emotion
- (grammar) passive (of a verb)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | passīvus | passīva | passīvum | passīvī | passīvae | passīva | |
| Genitive | passīvī | passīvae | passīvī | passīvōrum | passīvārum | passīvōrum | |
| Dative | passīvō | passīvō | passīvīs | ||||
| Accusative | passīvum | passīvam | passīvum | passīvōs | passīvās | passīva | |
| Ablative | passīvō | passīvā | passīvō | passīvīs | |||
| Vocative | passīve | passīva | passīvum | passīvī | passīvae | passīva | |
Derived terms
- passīvē
Descendants
- → Catalan: passiu
- → Danish: passiv
- → English: passive
- → French: passif
- → Turkish: pasif
- → German: passiv
- → Italian: passivo
- → Portuguese: passivo
- → Russian: пасси́вный (passívnyj)
- → Spanish: pasivo
- → Swedish: passiv
References
- “passivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- passivus 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)
- passivus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette