caelebs

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unknown. Suggestions include Proto-Indo-European *kéywelos (“alone”), but root obscure and suffix unexplained, see also Sanskrit केवल (kévala, “alone”); possibly a suffixation of Proto-Indo-European *koyl- *keh₂i-lo- (“safe, unharmed, whole”). [1] via unattested *cael.

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkae̯.leps/, [ˈkae̯.ɫɛps]

Adjective

caelebs (genitive caelibis); third declension

  1. unmarried, single

Inflection

Third declension.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative caelebs caelebs caelibēs caelibia
Genitive caelibis caelibis caelibium caelibium
Dative caelibī caelibī caelibibus caelibibus
Accusative caelibem caelebs caelibēs caelibia
Ablative caelibī caelibī caelibibus caelibibus
Vocative caelebs caelebs caelibēs caelibia

Citations
  • Horatius, epistulae, liber I. In: Horace Satires, Epistles and Ars poetica with an English translation by H. Rushton Fairclough, 1942, p. 258 f.:
    nil ait esse prius, melius nil caelibe vita ;
    si non est, iurat bene solis esse maritis.
    " Nothing," he says, " is finer or better than a single life." If it is not, he swears that only the married are well off.

Descendants

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “caelebs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 80
  • caelebs in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • caelebs in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • caelebs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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