negativus
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom negō (“to deny, refuse”) + -īvus.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ne.ɡaːˈtiː.u̯us/, [nɛɡäːˈt̪iːu̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ne.ɡaˈti.vus/, [neɡäˈt̪iːvus]
Adjective
editnegātīvus (feminine negātīva, neuter negātīvum); first/second-declension adjective
- denied, negative, that which denies
- (law) inhibiting
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | negātīvus | negātīva | negātīvum | negātīvī | negātīvae | negātīva | |
Genitive | negātīvī | negātīvae | negātīvī | negātīvōrum | negātīvārum | negātīvōrum | |
Dative | negātīvō | negātīvae | negātīvō | negātīvīs | |||
Accusative | negātīvum | negātīvam | negātīvum | negātīvōs | negātīvās | negātīva | |
Ablative | negātīvō | negātīvā | negātīvō | negātīvīs | |||
Vocative | negātīve | negātīva | negātīvum | negātīvī | negātīvae | negātīva |
Synonyms
edit- (negative): abiūdicātīvus, abnegātīvus, abnūtīvus
Related terms
editDescendants
edit- Asturian: negativu
- Catalan: negatiu
- → English: negative
- → French: négatif
- Galician: negativo
- Italian: negativo
- Occitan: negatiu
- Portuguese: negativo
- Romanian: negativ
- Spanish: negativo
Further reading
edit- “negativus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- negativus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.