mediocris

Latin

Etymology

From medius and maybe ocris (“rugged mountain”), as if "halfway up".[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /meˈdi.o.kris/, [mɛˈdi.ɔ.krɪs]

Adjective

mediocris (neuter mediocre); third declension

  1. middling, moderate
  2. tolerable, ordinary, normal
  3. mediocre, indifferent

Declension

Third declension.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative mediocris mediocre mediocrēs mediocria
Genitive mediocris mediocris mediocrium mediocrium
Dative mediocrī mediocrī mediocribus mediocribus
Accusative mediocrem mediocre mediocrēs, mediocrīs mediocria
Ablative mediocrī mediocrī mediocribus mediocribus
Vocative mediocris mediocre mediocrēs mediocria
  • comparative: mediocrior, superlative: mediocrissimus

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 21
  2. De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ocris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 424
  • mediocris in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mediocris in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mediocris in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • mediocris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to adopt half-measures: mediocribus consiliis uti
    • a deep, high, thin, moderate voice: vox gravis, acuta, parva, mediocris
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