bastardus
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain, perhaps from Frankish *bāst (“marriage”), or from Vulgar Latin bastum (“packsaddle”), thus a child born while travelling; see bastard.
Adjective
bastardus (feminine bastarda, neuter bastardum); first/second-declension adjective (Medieval Latin)
- bastard (of illegitimate descent)
- Antonym: lēgitimus
- Hyponyms: nothus, spurius
- impure
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | bastardus | bastarda | bastardum | bastardī | bastardae | bastarda | |
| Genitive | bastardī | bastardae | bastardī | bastardōrum | bastardārum | bastardōrum | |
| Dative | bastardō | bastardō | bastardīs | ||||
| Accusative | bastardum | bastardam | bastardum | bastardōs | bastardās | bastarda | |
| Ablative | bastardō | bastardā | bastardō | bastardīs | |||
| Vocative | bastarde | bastarda | bastardum | bastardī | bastardae | bastarda | |
Derived terms
- abastardō
- bastardia
Descendants
- Old French: bastard
- French: bâtard
- → Galician: bastardo
- → Middle Dutch: bastaert
- Dutch: bastaard
- → Indonesian: bastar
- →? Saramaccan: bása
- →? Sranan Tongo: basra
- Dutch: bastaard
- → Middle English: bastard, bastarde, basterd, bastart
- English: bastard
- Scots: bastart, bastert
Noun
bastardus m (genitive bastardī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin) bastard
- Synonym: illēgitimus
- 1430, Statuta Sabaudiae [Statutes of Savoy], book 3, chapter 3:
- Filii legitimi bastardorum nobilium non debent deferre cognomen et arma ipsorum nobilium, nisi de licentia capitis illius generis.
- The legitimate sons of noble bastards must not pass on the surname and arms of those nobles, unless permitted by the head of their family.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | bastardus | bastardī |
| Genitive | bastardī | bastardōrum |
| Dative | bastardō | bastardīs |
| Accusative | bastardum | bastardōs |
| Ablative | bastardō | bastardīs |
| Vocative | bastarde | bastardī |
References
- bastardus 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)
- bastardus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “bastardus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 87