politicus
Dutch
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin polīticus, from Ancient Greek πολιτικός (politikós); corresponding to politiek + -icus. First attested in 1629..
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌpoːˈli.ti.kʏs/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: po‧li‧ti‧cus
Noun
politicus m (plural politici, diminutive politicusje n, feminine politica)
- politician
- Synonym: politieker
Descendants
- Afrikaans: politikus
- → Indonesian: politikus, politisi
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek πολιτικός (politikós).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /poˈliː.ti.kus/, [pɔˈlʲiːt̪ɪkʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /poˈli.ti.kus/, [poˈliːt̪ikus]
Adjective
polīticus (feminine polītica, neuter polīticum, adverb polīticē); first/second-declension adjective
- political, civil, of the state, relating to civil polity
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | polīticus | polītica | polīticum | polīticī | polīticae | polītica | |
| Genitive | polīticī | polīticae | polīticī | polīticōrum | polīticārum | polīticōrum | |
| Dative | polīticō | polīticō | polīticīs | ||||
| Accusative | polīticum | polīticam | polīticum | polīticōs | polīticās | polītica | |
| Ablative | polīticō | polīticā | polīticō | polīticīs | |||
| Vocative | polītice | polītica | polīticum | polīticī | polīticae | polītica | |
Synonyms
- (political): cīvīlis
Derived terms
- trias polītica (wiki)
Descendants
- Catalan: polític
- French: politique
- English: politic
- German: Politik
- Italian: politico
- Occitan: politic
- Portuguese: político
- Romanian: politic, politică
- Spanish: político
References
- “politicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “politicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- politicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- politicus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016