agrestis

Latin

Etymology

For *agrestris, from ager (“field, farm”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

agrestis (neuter agreste); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to land, fields or the countryside; rural, rustic, wild.
  2. Clownish, rude, uncultivated, coarse, savage, barbarous; brutish, wild.

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative agrestis agreste agrestēs agrestia
Genitive agrestis agrestium
Dative agrestī agrestibus
Accusative agrestem agreste agrestēs
agrestīs		 agrestia
Ablative agrestī agrestibus
Vocative agrestis agreste agrestēs agrestia

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Descendants
  • English: agrestic
  • French: agreste
  • Italian: agreste
  • → Old Polish: agrest (learned)
  • Portuguese: agreste
  • Sardinian: aresti
  • Spanish: agreste

References
  • “agrestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “agrestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • agrestis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Palmer, L.R. (1906) The Latin Language, London, Faber and Faber
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