sortilegus

English

Noun

sortilegus (plural sortilegi)

  1. A diviner or soothsayer.

Latin

Etymology

From sors (“fortune, lot”) +‎ -legus (suffix indicating a gathering role).

Pronunciation

Adjective

sortilegus (feminine sortilega, neuter sortilegum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. that predicts the future; (relational) fortune-telling, soothsaying

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative sortilegus sortilega sortilegum sortilegī sortilegae sortilega
Genitive sortilegī sortilegae sortilegī sortilegōrum sortilegārum sortilegōrum
Dative sortilegō sortilegō sortilegīs
Accusative sortilegum sortilegam sortilegum sortilegōs sortilegās sortilega
Ablative sortilegō sortilegā sortilegō sortilegīs
Vocative sortilege sortilega sortilegum sortilegī sortilegae sortilega

Noun

sortilegus m (genitive sortilegī); second declension

  1. fortune-teller, soothsayer
  2. (historical, Ancient Rome) A soothsayer who practices divination.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sortilegus sortilegī
Genitive sortilegī sortilegōrum
Dative sortilegō sortilegīs
Accusative sortilegum sortilegōs
Ablative sortilegō sortilegīs
Vocative sortilege sortilegī

Derived terms
  • (Medieval Latin) sortilegium

Descendants

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