sortilegus
English
Noun
sortilegus (plural sortilegi)
- A diviner or soothsayer.
Latin
Etymology
From sors (“fortune, lot”) + -legus (suffix indicating a gathering role).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sɔrˈtɪ.ɫɛ.ɡʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [sorˈt̪iː.le.ɡus]
Adjective
sortilegus (feminine sortilega, neuter sortilegum); first/second-declension adjective
- that predicts the future; (relational) fortune-telling, soothsaying
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | sortilegus | sortilega | sortilegum | sortilegī | sortilegae | sortilega | |
| genitive | sortilegī | sortilegae | sortilegī | sortilegōrum | sortilegārum | sortilegōrum | |
| dative | sortilegō | sortilegae | sortilegō | sortilegīs | |||
| accusative | sortilegum | sortilegam | sortilegum | sortilegōs | sortilegās | sortilega | |
| ablative | sortilegō | sortilegā | sortilegō | sortilegīs | |||
| vocative | sortilege | sortilega | sortilegum | sortilegī | sortilegae | sortilega | |
Noun
sortilegus m (genitive sortilegī); second declension
- fortune-teller, soothsayer
- (historical, Ancient Rome) A soothsayer who practices divination.
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sortilegus | sortilegī |
| genitive | sortilegī | sortilegōrum |
| dative | sortilegō | sortilegīs |
| accusative | sortilegum | sortilegōs |
| ablative | sortilegō | sortilegīs |
| vocative | sortilege | sortilegī |
Derived terms
- (Medieval Latin) sortilegium
Descendants
References
- “sortilegus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sortilegus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "sortilegus", 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)
- sortilegus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.