degener
English
Verb
degener (third-person singular simple present degeners, present participle degenering, simple past and past participle degenered)
- (intransitive, obsolete) Alternative form of degender (“to degenerate”)
- 1596, Edm[und] Spenser, “An Hymne of Heavenly Love”, in Fovvre Hymnes, London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC:
- degenering to hate
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdeː.ɡe.ner/, [ˈd̪eːɡɛnɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈde.d͡ʒe.ner/, [ˈd̪ɛːd͡ʒener]
Adjective
dēgener (genitive dēgeneris); third-declension one-termination adjective
- of inferior stock, low-born
- inferior to one’s predecessors, degenerate
Declension
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | dēgener | dēgenerēs | dēgeneria | ||
| Genitive | dēgeneris | dēgenerium dēgenerum | |||
| Dative | dēgenerī | dēgeneribus | |||
| Accusative | dēgenerem | dēgener | dēgenerēs | dēgeneria | |
| Ablative | dēgenerī | dēgeneribus | |||
| Vocative | dēgener | dēgenerēs | dēgeneria | ||
❇ Neut. nom. pl., acc. pl. and voc. pl. are not attested in Classical Latin, but they are attested in Modern Latin.
Derived terms
References
- “degener”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “degener”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- degener in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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