orphanus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὀρφανός (orphanós, “without parents, fatherless”). Compare orbus.
| PIE word |
|---|
| *h₃órbʰos |
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɔr.pʰa.nʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔr.fa.nus]
Adjective
orphanus (feminine orphana, neuter orphanum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | orphanus | orphana | orphanum | orphanī | orphanae | orphana | |
| genitive | orphanī | orphanae | orphanī | orphanōrum | orphanārum | orphanōrum | |
| dative | orphanō | orphanae | orphanō | orphanīs | |||
| accusative | orphanum | orphanam | orphanum | orphanōs | orphanās | orphana | |
| ablative | orphanō | orphanā | orphanō | orphanīs | |||
| vocative | orphane | orphana | orphanum | orphanī | orphanae | orphana | |
Noun
orphanus m (genitive orphanī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | orphanus | orphanī |
| genitive | orphanī | orphanōrum |
| dative | orphanō | orphanīs |
| accusative | orphanum | orphanōs |
| ablative | orphanō | orphanīs |
| vocative | orphane | orphanī |
Descendants
- → Albanian: varfër, vorfën
- Aromanian: oarfãn, oarfãnu, orfãn
- Asturian: güérfanu
- Catalan: orfe
- → English: orphan
- Esperanto: orfo
- Old French: orfene
- Friulian: vuarfin
- Galician: orfo, orfao
- Italian: orfano
- Judeo-Italian: אוֹרְפֵֿינוֹ (ʔorəp̄eno /orfeno/)
- Leonese: güerfano, guérfanu
- Mirandese: uorfano
- Occitan: òrfe, orfanèl
- Portuguese: órfão, orfo, orfe
- Romanian: orfan, oarfăn
- Sardinian: òlfanu, òrfanu
- Spanish: huérfano
References
- “orphanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "orphanus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- orphanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.