spontaneus
Latin
Etymology
From sponte + -āneus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /sponˈtaː.ne.us/, [s̠pɔn̪ˈt̪äːneʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sponˈta.ne.us/, [spon̪ˈt̪äːneus]
Adjective
spontāneus (feminine spontānea, neuter spontāneum); first/second-declension adjective
- voluntary, spontaneous
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | spontāneus | spontānea | spontāneum | spontāneī | spontāneae | spontānea | |
| Genitive | spontāneī | spontāneae | spontāneī | spontāneōrum | spontāneārum | spontāneōrum | |
| Dative | spontāneō | spontāneō | spontāneīs | ||||
| Accusative | spontāneum | spontāneam | spontāneum | spontāneōs | spontāneās | spontānea | |
| Ablative | spontāneō | spontāneā | spontāneō | spontāneīs | |||
| Vocative | spontānee | spontānea | spontāneum | spontāneī | spontāneae | spontānea | |
Descendants
- Asturian: espontaneu
- Catalan: espontani
- English: spontaneous
- Esperanto: spontana
- French: spontané
- Galician: espontáneo
- German: spontan
- Hungarian: spontán
- Italian: spontaneo
- Portuguese: espontâneo
- Romanian: spontan
- Serbo-Croatian: spȍntān, спо̏нта̄н
- Spanish: espontáneo
- Swedish: spontan
References
- “spontaneus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- spontaneus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- spontaneus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016