rarus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *rāros, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁r̥h₁rós, from *h₁reh₁- (“to separate”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἐρῆμος (erêmos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈraː.rus/, [ˈräːrʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈra.rus/, [ˈräːrus]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Adjective
rārus (feminine rāra, neuter rārum, comparative rārior, superlative rārissimus, adverb rārō or rārē); first/second-declension adjective
- scattered, far apart
- seldom, few
- rare, uncommon
- thin, loose
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | rārus | rāra | rārum | rārī | rārae | rāra | |
| Genitive | rārī | rārae | rārī | rārōrum | rārārum | rārōrum | |
| Dative | rārō | rārō | rārīs | ||||
| Accusative | rārum | rāram | rārum | rārōs | rārās | rāra | |
| Ablative | rārō | rārā | rārō | rārīs | |||
| Vocative | rāre | rāra | rārum | rārī | rārae | rāra | |
Derived terms
- rallus
- rārē
- rārēfaciō
- rārenter
- rārēscō
- rāripilus
- rāritās
- rāriter
- rāritūdō
- rārō
Descendants
- → Albanian: rrallë
- → Asturian: raru
- → Danish: rar
- → Middle Dutch: raer
- Dutch: raar
- → Middle English: rare, rere
- English: rare
- → Faroese: rárur
- → French: rare
- → German: rar
- → Norwegian: rar
- → Portuguese: raro
- → Spanish: raro
- → Swedish: rar
- Aromanian: rar
- Asturian: ralu
- Catalan: rar
- Friulian: râr
- Galician: raro
- Italian: rado, raro
- Occitan: rar
- Old French: rer
- Portuguese: ralo
- Romanian: rar
- Romansch: rar, rer
- Sardinian: raru
- Sicilian: raru
- Spanish: ralo
- Venetian: raro
References
- “rarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rarus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rarus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- preparations for war; war-material: apparatus (rare in plur.) belli
- in open order: raris ordinibus
- to fight in skirmishing order: rari dispersique pugnare (B. C. 1. 44)
- preparations for war; war-material: apparatus (rare in plur.) belli
- “rarus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia