Caesarinus

See also: caesarinus

Latin

Alternative forms

• caesarīnus

Etymology

From Caesar + -īnus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kae̯.saˈriː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃe.s̬aˈriː.nus]
• Hyphenation: Cae‧sa‧rī‧nus

Adjective

Caesarīnus (feminine Caesarīna, neuter Caesarīnum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (chiefly poetic, relational) synonym of Caesareus (“Caesarean”) (of, or pertaining to, Julius Caesar)
2. (transferred sense) synonym of Caesareus (“worldly”) (involved in temporal affairs)
   • 1378 – 1379, John Wycliffe, De veritate sacræ scripturæ III.236:

     exemplātum est […] in Novō Testāmentō dē sacerdōtibus Caesarīnīs, quōs rēgēs et prī̆ncipēs ad rēgnōrum gubernācula dōtāvērunt

     it was exemplified […] in the New Testament regarding the worldly priests, whom kings and princes endowed for the governance of kingdoms

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	Caesarīnus	Caesarīna	Caesarīnum		Caesarīnī	Caesarīnae	Caesarīna
genitive	Caesarīnī	Caesarīnae	Caesarīnī		Caesarīnōrum	Caesarīnārum	Caesarīnōrum
dative	Caesarīnō	Caesarīnae	Caesarīnō		Caesarīnīs
accusative	Caesarīnum	Caesarīnam	Caesarīnum		Caesarīnōs	Caesarīnās	Caesarīna
ablative	Caesarīnō	Caesarīnā	Caesarīnō		Caesarīnīs
vocative	Caesarīne	Caesarīna	Caesarīnum		Caesarīnī	Caesarīnae	Caesarīna

Descendants

• → Portuguese: cesarino (learned)

Further reading

• “Caesărīnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “Caesarinus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[2], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• “Caesarinus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 240, column 3.