hostilis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin hostis

Proto-Indo-European *-elis

Proto-Italic *-elis

Latin -ilis

Latin -īlis

Latin hostīlis

From hostis (“enemy”) + -īlis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɔsˈtiː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [osˈtiː.lis]

Adjective

hostīlis (neuter hostīle, adverb hostīliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. hostile

   Synonyms: inimīcus, oblīquus, inīquus, īnfēnsus, adversus, dīversus, āversus, īnfestus

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	hostīlis	hostīle		hostīlēs	hostīlia
genitive	hostīlis			hostīlium
dative	hostīlī			hostīlibus
accusative	hostīlem	hostīle		hostīlīs hostīlēs	hostīlia
ablative	hostīlī			hostīlibus
vocative	hostīlis	hostīle		hostīlēs	hostīlia

Derived terms

• hostīlitās
• hostīliter

Related terms

• hostis

Descendants

• Catalan: hostil
• → English: hostile
• French: hostile
• Friulian: ostîl
• Galician: hostil
• Italian: ostile
• Occitan: ostil
• Piedmontese: ostil
• Portuguese: hostil
• Romanian: ostil
• Spanish: hostil

References

• “hostilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hostilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “hostilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.