agrestis
Latin
Etymology
For *agrestris, from ager (“field, farm”) + -estris (“located, dwelling in”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈɡrɛs.tɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈɡrɛs.t̪is]
Adjective
agrestis (neuter agreste); third-declension two-termination adjective
- Of or pertaining to land, fields or the countryside; rural, rustic, wild.
- Clownish, rude, uncultivated, coarse, savage, barbarous; brutish, wild.
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | agrestis | agreste | agrestēs | agrestia | |
| genitive | agrestis | agrestium | |||
| dative | agrestī | agrestibus | |||
| accusative | agrestem | agreste | agrestēs agrestīs |
agrestia | |
| ablative | agrestī | agrestibus | |||
| vocative | agrestis | agreste | agrestēs | agrestia | |
Synonyms
- (rural): rūsticus
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → English: agrestic
- French: agreste
- Italian: agreste
- Portuguese: agreste
- Sardinian: aresti
- Spanish: agreste
References
- “agrestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “agrestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “agrestis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Palmer, L.R. (1906) The Latin Language, London, Faber and Faber