mediocris
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom medius and maybe ocris (“rugged mountain”), as if "halfway up".[1][2]
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /meˈdi.o.kris/, [mɛˈd̪iɔkrɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /meˈdi.o.kris/, [meˈd̪iːokris]
Adjective
editmediocris (neuter mediocre, comparative mediocrior, superlative medioximus, adverb mediocriter); third-declension two-termination adjective
Declension
editThird-declension two-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mediocris | mediocre | mediocrēs | mediocria | |
| Genitive | mediocris | mediocrium | |||
| Dative | mediocrī | mediocribus | |||
| Accusative | mediocrem | mediocre | mediocrēs mediocrīs |
mediocria | |
| Ablative | mediocrī | mediocribus | |||
| Vocative | mediocris | mediocre | mediocrēs | mediocria | |
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- → Catalan: mediocre
- → French: médiocre
- → English: mediocre
- → Italian: mediocre
- → Portuguese: medíocre
- → Romanian: mediocru
- → Spanish: mediocre
References
edit- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 21
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ocris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 424
- “mediocris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mediocris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mediocris 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)
- mediocris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to adopt half-measures: mediocribus consiliis uti
- a deep, high, thin, moderate voice: vox gravis, acuta, parva, mediocris
- to adopt half-measures: mediocribus consiliis uti