catholicus
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek καθολικός (katholikós, “universal”), from κατά (katá, “according to”) + ὅλος (hólos, “whole”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kaˈtʰo.li.kus/, [käˈt̪ʰɔlʲɪkʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kaˈto.li.kus/, [käˈt̪ɔːlikus]
Adjective
catholicus (feminine catholica, neuter catholicum); first/second-declension adjective
- catholic; pertaining to all kinds of people and their range of tastes and proclivities.
- universal
- (capitalised; in sensu lato) Catholic; promoting, practicing, or related to an occidental denomination of the Christian religion distinct from those categorised as Protestant
- (in sensu stricto) Catholic; promoting, practicing, preaching, or related to the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, headed by the Supreme Pontiff or Pope.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | catholicus | catholica | catholicum | catholicī | catholicae | catholica | |
| Genitive | catholicī | catholicae | catholicī | catholicōrum | catholicārum | catholicōrum | |
| Dative | catholicō | catholicō | catholicīs | ||||
| Accusative | catholicum | catholicam | catholicum | catholicōs | catholicās | catholica | |
| Ablative | catholicō | catholicā | catholicō | catholicīs | |||
| Vocative | catholice | catholica | catholicum | catholicī | catholicae | catholica | |
Descendants
- Asturian: católicu
- Catalan: catòlic
- Galician: católico
- → German: katholisch
- → Irish: Caitliceach
- Italian: cattolico
- Ladin: catolich
- Old French: catholique
- → English: catholic, Catholic
- French: catholique
- Piedmontese: catòlich
- Portuguese: católico
- Romanian: catolic
- Sicilian: cattòlicu
- Spanish: católico
References
- “catholicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- catholicus 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)
- catholicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette