Noun: asinus
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Second
Nominative
| Singular | asinus |
| Plural | asinī |
Genitive
| Singular | asinī |
| Plural | asinōrum |
Dative
| Singular | asinō |
| Plural | asinīs |
Accusative
| Singular | asinum |
| Plural | asinōs |
Ablative
| Singular | asinō |
| Plural | asinīs |
Vocative
| Singular | asine |
| Plural | asinī |
Sample Sentences
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Neque egō hominēs magis asinōs umquam vīdī[…]quōs quom feriās, tibi plūs noceās. (I've never seen human beings who were more like asses […] When you hit them, you hurt yourself more.) [c. 191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus, act 1, scene 2:]
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Quid tū autem huic, asine, auscultās? (And why are you listening to him, you dolt?) [160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe]
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Quid nunc tē, asine, litterās doceam? Nōn opus est verbīs, sed fustibus. (Must I now teach an ass like you to read? What you need isn't words but a cudgeling.) [c. 70 BCE, Cicero, In Pisonem, chapter 73:]
Nouns inflected like asinus
priāpismus,
scāpus,
servus,
cuneolus,
sargus,
saccus,
scarus,
scinus,
scopus,
illēgitimus,
sorbus,
sophus,
somnus,
Hispānus,
soccus,
sirpus,
siclus,
icterus,
cunīculus,
xystus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Unknown; perhaps borrowed from a substrate language in Asia Minor. Compare Luwian [script needed] (tarkasna) and Sumerian 𒀲 (anše). The lack of rhotacism of the intervocalic /s/ (which would have yielded the form *arinus) suggests that the word must have been borrowed after the 4th century BCE, when this phonetic shift became unproductive.
Verbs referencing "asinus"
English Nouns
ass, Romanian Nouns
asin, Finnish Nouns
aasi, Bulgarian Nouns
осел, Danish Nouns
asen, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
asen, Ancient Greek Nouns
ὄνος, Old English Nouns
assa, Spanish Nouns
asnerizo, English Nouns
assinico.
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