paganus

Latin

Etymology

From pāgus (“area outside of a city, countryside”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

pāgānus (feminine pāgāna, neuter pāgānum); first/second declension

  1. Of or pertaining to the countryside, rural, rustic.
  2. (by extension) rustic, unlearned
  3. (substantive) villager, countryman
  4. (substantive) civilian
  5. (substantive, Ecclesiastical Latin) heathen, pagan

Inflection

First/second declension.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative pāgānus pāgāna pāgānum pāgānī pāgānae pāgāna
Genitive pāgānī pāgānae pāgānī pāgānōrum pāgānārum pāgānōrum
Dative pāgānō pāgānae pāgānō pāgānīs pāgānīs pāgānīs
Accusative pāgānum pāgānam pāgānum pāgānōs pāgānās pāgāna
Ablative pāgānō pāgānā pāgānō pāgānīs pāgānīs pāgānīs
Vocative pāgāne pāgāna pāgānum pāgānī pāgānae pāgāna

Derived terms

Descendants

References
  • paganus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • paganus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • paganus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • paganus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • paganus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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