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-ianus
-ianus
Latin
Alternative forms
Suffix
-iānus m (feminine -iāna, neuter -iānum); first/second declension
- Enlarged form of -ānus, especially frequent in adjectives formed from proper names.
- Catullus + -iānus → Catulliānus
- Cicerō (stem: Cicerōn-) + -iānus → Cicerōniānus
- Tīrō (stem: Tīrōn-) + -iānus → Tīrōniānus
Declension
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | -iānus | -iāna | -iānum | -iānī | -iānae | -iāna | |
| genitive | -iānī | -iānae | -iānī | -iānōrum | -iānārum | -iānōrum | |
| dative | -iānō | -iānō | -iānīs | ||||
| accusative | -iānum | -iānam | -iānum | -iānōs | -iānās | -iāna | |
| ablative | -iānō | -iānā | -iānō | -iānīs | |||
| vocative | -iāne | -iāna | -iānum | -iānī | -iānae | -iāna | |
Derived terms
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Latin_words_suffixed_with_-ianus'>Latin words suffixed with -ianus</a>
References
- “-iānus” on page 817/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)