Noun: gladius
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Second
Nominative
| Singular | gladius |
| Plural | gladiī |
Genitive
| Singular | gladiī; gladī |
| Plural | gladiōrum |
Dative
| Singular | gladiō |
| Plural | gladiīs |
Accusative
| Singular | gladium |
| Plural | gladiōs |
Ablative
| Singular | gladiō |
| Plural | gladiīs |
Vocative
| Singular | gladie |
| Plural | gladiī |
Sample Sentences
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Mitte gladium in vaginam. (Put the sword into its sheath.)
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in gladium incumbere (to fall on one's sword)
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quid tibi cum gladiō? (What are you doing with a sword?) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.101]
Nouns inflected like gladius
duplicārius,
socius,
palmārius,
glūtinārius,
tabernārius,
aerārius,
palumbārius,
burcgrāvius,
butticulārius,
peloponnēsius,
ōstiārius,
foenārius,
auxiliārius,
mēnsārius,
vēnālicius,
salārius,
cuppēdinārius,
molīnārius,
caepārius,
herbārius, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Possibly from Gaulish *kladyos (“sword”), from Proto-Celtic *kladiwos (“sword”) (compare Old Irish claideb (“sword”), Welsh cleddyf (“sword”) from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat, break”)). Cognate with Latin clādēs, clāva, percellō. See: Latin Nouns '
clādēs'.
Verbs referencing "gladius"
English Nouns
glaive, English Nouns
gladius, Dutch Nouns
gladius, Italian Nouns
gladio, Spanish Nouns
gladio, Romanian Nouns
gladium, Romanian Nouns
gladie, Italian Nouns
ghiado.
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