Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From lētum (“death; ruin”) + -ālis.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫeːˈtaː.lɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [leˈtaː.lis]
Adjective
[edit]lētālis (neuter lētāle); third-declension two-termination adjective
- lethal, deadly, fatal, mortal
- c. 1129, Henricus Huntindoniensis, edited by Thomas Arnold, Historia Anglorum[1], published 1879, page 194:
- Quem cum bello caesum patri renuntiassent, ait: "Recepitne vulnus letale in anteriori vel posteriori corporis parte?" Dixerunt nuntii: "In anteriori."
- And when they had reported his death during the battle to his father, he said: "Did he receive the lethal blow on the front or the back of his body?" The messengers said: "In the front."
- 2007, Carolus Petreius Bogotensis, Niponum gallinae probantur viru aviarii morbi contactae[2], Ephemeris:
- Biologici Nipones affirmant virus H5N1 {...} esse letale.
- Japanese biologists confirm that the H5N1 virus {...} is lethal.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | |
| nominative | lētālis | lētāle | lētālēs | lētālia |
| genitive | lētālis | lētālium | ||
| dative | lētālī | lētālibus | ||
| accusative | lētālem | lētāle | lētālīs lētālēs |
lētālia |
| ablative | lētālī | lētālibus | ||
| vocative | lētālis | lētāle | lētālēs | lētālia |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “letalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “letalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “letalis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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