sortilegus
English
Noun
sortilegus (plural sortilegi)
- A diviner or soothsayer.
Latin
Etymology
From sors (“fortune, lot”) + -legus (suffix indicating a gathering role).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /sorˈti.le.ɡus/, [s̠ɔrˈt̪ɪɫ̪ɛɡʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sorˈti.le.ɡus/, [sorˈt̪iːleɡus]
Adjective
sortilegus (feminine sortilega, neuter sortilegum); first/second-declension adjective
- that predicts the future; (relational) fortune-telling, soothsaying
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | sortilegus | sortilega | sortilegum | sortilegī | sortilegae | sortilega | |
| Genitive | sortilegī | sortilegae | sortilegī | sortilegōrum | sortilegārum | sortilegōrum | |
| Dative | sortilegō | sortilegō | sortilegīs | ||||
| Accusative | sortilegum | sortilegam | sortilegum | sortilegōs | sortilegās | sortilega | |
| Ablative | sortilegō | sortilegā | sortilegō | sortilegīs | |||
| Vocative | sortilege | sortilega | sortilegum | sortilegī | sortilegae | sortilega | |
Noun
sortilegus m (genitive sortilegī); second declension
- fortune-teller, soothsayer
- (historical, Ancient Rome) A soothsayer who practices divination.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sortilegus | sortilegī |
| Genitive | sortilegī | sortilegōrum |
| Dative | sortilegō | sortilegīs |
| Accusative | sortilegum | sortilegōs |
| Ablative | sortilegō | sortilegīs |
| Vocative | sortilege | sortilegī |
Derived terms
- (Medieval Latin) sortilegium
Descendants
- Catalan: sortíleg
- Italian: sortilego
- Portuguese: sortílego
- Spanish: sortílego
- Descendants of sortilegium:
- French: sortilège
- English: sortilege
- French: sortilège
References
- “sortilegus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sortilegus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sortilegus 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)
- sortilegus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette