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precarius
precarius
Latin
Adjective
precārius m (feminine precāria, neuter precārium); first/second declension
- related to entreaty or petition
- obtained by entreaty or by mere favor
- doubtful, uncertain, precarious
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | precārius | precāria | precārium | precāriī | precāriae | precāria | |
| genitive | precāriī | precāriae | precāriī | precāriōrum | precāriārum | precāriōrum | |
| dative | precāriō | precāriō | precāriīs | ||||
| accusative | precārium | precāriam | precārium | precāriōs | precāriās | precāria | |
| ablative | precāriō | precāriā | precāriō | precāriīs | |||
| vocative | precārie | precāria | precārium | precāriī | precāriae | precāria | |
Descendants
References
- precarius in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- precarius in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “precarius”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- precarious in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911