utensilis

Catalan

Noun

utensilis

1. plural of utensili

Latin

Etymology

From ūtor, perhaps with an ending rebracketed from other adjectives in ēnsilis. Compare ūtilis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [uːˈtẽː.sɪ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [uˈtɛn.si.lis]

Adjective

ūtēnsilis (neuter ūtēnsile); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (rare) useful

   Synonyms: opportūnus, commodus, habilis, idōneus, conveniēns, ūtilis, aptus, salūber

   Antonyms: incommodus, inūtilis, ineptus, irritus, ingrātus, gratuitus

   • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Rerum rusticarum 1.2.6:

     Illic in semenstri die aut nocte quem ad modum quicquam seri aut alescere aut meti possit? Contra quid in Italia utensile non modo non nascitur, sed etiam non egregium fit?

     There, where either day or night is six month long, how may anything be set, grown and harvested? Now, what useful thing might not in Italy be found, aye and the best at that?

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	ūtēnsilis	ūtēnsile		ūtēnsilēs	ūtēnsilia
genitive	ūtēnsilis			ūtēnsilium
dative	ūtēnsilī			ūtēnsilibus
accusative	ūtēnsilem	ūtēnsile		ūtēnsilīs ūtēnsilēs	ūtēnsilia
ablative	ūtēnsilī			ūtēnsilibus
vocative	ūtēnsilis	ūtēnsile		ūtēnsilēs	ūtēnsilia

Derived terms

• ūtēnsilia

Descendants

• See ūtēnsilia
• → Italian: utensile

References

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