diabolicus
Latin
Etymology
From Koine Greek διαβολικός (diabolikós, “devilish”), from διάβολος (diábolos, “the Devil”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /di.aˈbo.li.kus/, [d̪iäˈbɔlʲɪkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /di.aˈbo.li.kus/, [d̪iäˈbɔːlikus]
Adjective
diabolicus (feminine diabolica, neuter diabolicum); first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | diabolicus | diabolica | diabolicum | diabolicī | diabolicae | diabolica | |
| Genitive | diabolicī | diabolicae | diabolicī | diabolicōrum | diabolicārum | diabolicōrum | |
| Dative | diabolicō | diabolicō | diabolicīs | ||||
| Accusative | diabolicum | diabolicam | diabolicum | diabolicōs | diabolicās | diabolica | |
| Ablative | diabolicō | diabolicā | diabolicō | diabolicīs | |||
| Vocative | diabolice | diabolica | diabolicum | diabolicī | diabolicae | diabolica | |
Descendants
- → Catalan: diabòlic
- → Dutch: diabolisch
- → German: diabolisch
- → Italian: diabolico
- → Middle French: diabolique
- French: diabolique
- → English: diabolic, diabolick
- → Portuguese: diabólico
- → Spanish: diabólico
References
- “diabolicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- diabolicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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