apocryphus
Latin
Alternative forms
- apocrifus (Late Latin, Vulgate)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀπόκρυφος (apókruphos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈpo.kry.pʰus/, [äˈpɔkrʏpʰʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈpo.kri.fus/, [äˈpɔːkrifus]
Adjective
apocryphus (feminine apocrypha, neuter apocryphum); first/second-declension adjective
- secret, not approved for public reading
- apocryphal
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | apocryphus | apocrypha | apocryphum | apocryphī | apocryphae | apocrypha | |
| Genitive | apocryphī | apocryphae | apocryphī | apocryphōrum | apocryphārum | apocryphōrum | |
| Dative | apocryphō | apocryphō | apocryphīs | ||||
| Accusative | apocryphum | apocrypham | apocryphum | apocryphōs | apocryphās | apocrypha | |
| Ablative | apocryphō | apocryphā | apocryphō | apocryphīs | |||
| Vocative | apocryphe | apocrypha | apocryphum | apocryphī | apocryphae | apocrypha | |
Descendants
References
- “apocryphus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- apocryphus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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