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laetus
laetus
Latin
Adjective
laetus m (feminine laeta, neuter laetum); first/second declension
- happy
- Laetus sum.
- I (a man) am happy.
- Laeta sum.
- I (a woman) am happy.
- Laetus sum.
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | laetus | laeta | laetum | laetī | laetae | laeta | |
| genitive | laetī | laetae | laetī | laetōrum | laetārum | laetōrum | |
| dative | laetō | laetō | laetīs | ||||
| accusative | laetum | laetam | laetum | laetōs | laetās | laeta | |
| ablative | laetō | laetā | laetō | laetīs | |||
| vocative | laete | laeta | laetum | laetī | laetae | laeta | |
- comparative: laetior, superlative: laetissimus
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- laetus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- laetus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- LAETUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “laetus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the laughing cornfields: laetae segetes
- the laughing cornfields: laetae segetes
- laetus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray