prudens
See also: Prudens
Latin
Etymology
Contracted form of prōvidēns, present active participle of prōvideō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpruː.dens/, [ˈpruːd̪ẽːs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpru.dens/, [ˈpruːd̪ens]
Adjective
prūdēns (genitive prūdentis, comparative prudentior, superlative prudentissimus, adverb prūdenter); third-declension one-termination adjective
- wise, prudent
- Synonyms: callidus, sapiēns, sollers
- Antonyms: īnsipiēns, stupidus, fatuus, stultus, brūtus, āmēns, dēmēns
- skilful, knowledgeable (in a specific matter)
Declension
- The ablative singular also appears as prūdente.
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | prūdēns | prūdentēs | prūdentia | ||
Genitive | prūdentis | prūdentium | |||
Dative | prūdentī | prūdentibus | |||
Accusative | prūdentem | prūdēns | prūdentēs | prūdentia | |
Ablative | prūdentī | prūdentibus | |||
Vocative | prūdēns | prūdentēs | prūdentia |
Derived terms
- prūdenter
- prūdentia
Descendants
- Catalan: prudent
- English: prudent
- French: prudent
- Galician: prudente
- Italian: prudente
- Occitan: prudent
- Piedmontese: prudent
- Portuguese: prudente
- Romanian: prudent
- Spanish: prudente
- Welsh: prudd
Further reading
- “prudens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “prudens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- prudens 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)
- prudens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- statesmen: viri rerum civilium, rei publicae gerendae periti or viri in re publica prudentes
- (ambiguous) statesmanship; political wisdom: prudentia (civilis) (De Or. 1. 19. 85)
- statesmen: viri rerum civilium, rei publicae gerendae periti or viri in re publica prudentes