angelicus

Late Latin; from angelus (“angel”) +‎ -icus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /anˈɡe.li.kus/, [aŋˈɡɛ.lɪ.kʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /anˈd͡ʒe.li.kus/, [anˈd͡ʒeː.li.kus]

angelicus (feminine angelica, neuter angelicum); first/second declension

1. Of or pertaining to angels; angelic
   • 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, City of God 12.1:

     Sicut ergo, cum uitium oculorum dicitur caecitas, id ostenditur, quod ad naturam oculorum pertinet uisus; et cum uitium aurium dicitur surditas, ad earum naturam pertinere demonstratur auditus: ita, cum uitium creaturae angelicae dicitur, quo non adhaeret Deo, hinc apertissime declaratur, eius naturae ut Deo adhaereat conuenire.

     As, then, when we say that blindness is a defect of the eyes, we prove that sight belongs to the nature of the eyes; and when we say that deafness is a defect of the ears, hearing is thereby proved to belong to their nature;—so, when we say that it is a fault of the angelic creature that it does not cleave to God, we hereby most plainly declare that it pertained to its nature to cleave to God.

First/second declension.

• vox angelica

• angelus

• angelicus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• angelicus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• angelicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette