mediocris
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /meˈdi.o.kris/, [mɛˈdi.ɔ.krɪs]
Adjective
mediocris (neuter mediocre); third declension
Declension
Third declension.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | mediocris | mediocre | mediocrēs | mediocria | |
Genitive | mediocris | mediocris | mediocrium | mediocrium | |
Dative | mediocrī | mediocrī | mediocribus | mediocribus | |
Accusative | mediocrem | mediocre | mediocrēs, mediocrīs | mediocria | |
Ablative | mediocrī | mediocrī | mediocribus | mediocribus | |
Vocative | mediocris | mediocre | mediocrēs | mediocria |
- comparative: mediocrior, superlative: mediocrissimus
Derived terms
- mediocriculus
- mediocritās
- mediocriter
References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 21
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ocris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 424
- mediocris in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mediocris in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mediocris in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- mediocris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to adopt half-measures: mediocribus consiliis uti
- a deep, high, thin, moderate voice: vox gravis, acuta, parva, mediocris
- to adopt half-measures: mediocribus consiliis uti
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