mundus

mundus

1. plural of mundu

• dunums, musnud

Two possibilities include:

• From Etruscan 𐌌𐌖𐌈 (muθ, “pit, mundus”).
• From Proto-Indo-European *mh₂nd- (“to adorn”) and cognate with Old High German mandag (“joyful, happy, dashing”). Possibly also conflated in the sense of "clean, neat" with Proto-Indo-European *muh₂-, *mewh₂- (“to wash, wet”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmun.dus/, [ˈmʊn.dʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmun.dus/

mundus (feminine munda, neuter mundum); first/second declension

1. clean, pure; neat
2. nice, fine, elegant, sophisticated
3. decorated, adorned

First/second declension.

• (clean, pure): immundus

• munditer
• mundificō
• mundō

From mundus (see above).

mundus m (genitive mundī); second declension

1. ornaments, decorations, dress (of a woman)
2. implement
3. (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) the universe, the world, esp. the heavens and the heavenly bodies

   Sic enim dilexit Deus mundum ut filium suum unigenitum daret ut omnis qui credit in eum non pereat sed habeat vitam aeternam.

   For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

4. the inhabitants of the earth, mankind
5. (Medieval Latin) a century
6. (Medieval Latin) a group of people

Second declension.

• mundānus
• mundiālis
• Anima mundī
• Stupor mundī

• mundus¹ in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mundus² in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mundus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mundus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• 1 mundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• 2 mundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the universe: rerum or mundi universitas
    
  • the perfect harmony of the universe: totius mundi convenientia et consensus
    
  • God made the world: deus mundum aedificavit, fabricatus est, effecit (not creavit)
    
  • God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum
    
  • a citizen of the world; cosmopolitan: mundanus, mundi civis et incola (Tusc. 5. 37)
    
• mundus in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press