octogenarius
Latin
Etymology
From octogēnus (“eighty each”) + -ārius (“-ary: forming denumeral adjs”), from octogintā (“eight tens, eighty”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ok.toː.ɡeːˈnaː.ri.us/, [ɔkt̪oːɡeːˈnäːriʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ok.to.d͡ʒeˈna.ri.us/, [okt̪od͡ʒeˈnäːrius]
Adjective
octōgēnārius (feminine octōgēnāria, neuter octōgēnārium); first/second-declension adjective
- (relational) eighty
- eighty-year-old
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | octōgēnārius | octōgēnāria | octōgēnārium | octōgēnāriī | octōgēnāriae | octōgēnāria | |
| Genitive | octōgēnāriī | octōgēnāriae | octōgēnāriī | octōgēnāriōrum | octōgēnāriārum | octōgēnāriōrum | |
| Dative | octōgēnāriō | octōgēnāriō | octōgēnāriīs | ||||
| Accusative | octōgēnārium | octōgēnāriam | octōgēnārium | octōgēnāriōs | octōgēnāriās | octōgēnāria | |
| Ablative | octōgēnāriō | octōgēnāriā | octōgēnāriō | octōgēnāriīs | |||
| Vocative | octōgēnārie | octōgēnāria | octōgēnārium | octōgēnāriī | octōgēnāriae | octōgēnāria | |
Descendants
- English: octogenary, octogenarian
- French: octogénaire
References
- “octogenarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- octogenarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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