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classicus

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin classicus. Equivalent to klassiek +‎ -icus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈklɑ.si.kʏs/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: clas‧si‧cus

Noun

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classicus m (plural classici, feminine classica)

  1. classicist

Coordinate terms

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Latin

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Etymology

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From classis +‎ -cus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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classicus (feminine classica, neuter classicum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. pertaining to the fleet (naval forces)
  2. Synonym of patricius: pertaining to the highest class of citizen
    Antonym: proletarius
    • c. 177 CE, Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae xix.8.15:
      Ite ergo nunc et, quando forte erit otium, quaerite, an "quadrigam" et "harenas" dixerit e cohorte illa dumtaxat antiquiore vel oratorum aliquis vel poetarum, id est classicus adsiduusque aliquis scriptor, non proletarius.
      So go now and inquire, when you chance to have leisure, whether any orator or poet, provided he be of that earlier band—that is to say, any classical or authoritative writer, not one of the common herd—has used "quadriga" or "harenae".
  3. (New Latin) classic, representative or exemplary of a class of things
    locus classicus

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative classicus classica classicum classicī classicae classica
genitive classicī classicae classicī classicōrum classicārum classicōrum
dative classicō classicae classicō classicīs
accusative classicum classicam classicum classicōs classicās classica
ablative classicō classicā classicō classicīs
vocative classice classica classicum classicī classicae classica

Derived terms

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Descendants

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References

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  • classicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • classicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • classicus 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)
  • classicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) the bugle, trumpet sounds before the general's tent: classicum or tuba canit ad praetorium
    • (ambiguous) the trumpet sounds for the attack: classicum canit (B. C. 3. 82)
  • classicus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers