pagensis

Latin

Etymology

From pagus (“district”) +‎ -ensis. Perhaps forming basis to gens for a shortened form.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /paːˈɡen.sis/, [päːˈɡẽːs̠ɪs̠]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /paˈd͡ʒen.sis/, [päˈd͡ʒɛnsis]

Noun

pāgēnsis m (genitive pāgēnsis); third declension

(Medieval Latin) peasant, countryfolk

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem), with locative.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pāgēnsis	pāgēnsēs
Genitive	pāgēnsis	pāgēnsium
Dative	pāgēnsī	pāgēnsibus
Accusative	pāgēnsem	pāgēnsēs pāgēnsīs
Ablative	pāgēnse	pāgēnsibus
Vocative	pāgēnsis	pāgēnsēs
Locative	pāgēnsī pāgēnse	pāgēnsibus

Descendants

Catalan: pagès
Franco-Provençal: payis
Old French: pais
- Bourguignon: poiys
- Middle French: pays, païs
  - French: pays
- → Catalan: país
- → Occitan: país
- → Portuguese: país
  - Papiamentu: pais
- → Spanish: país
Friulian: paîs
Istriot: pais
Italian: paese
Piedmontese: pais
Romansch: pajais, pajis, paeis
Sicilian: pajisi
- → Maltese: pajjiż
Venetian: pajès
→ Welsh: Powys
- → English: Powys

References

pagensis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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