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English
Noun
mundus
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Latin
Etymology 1
Two possibilities include: (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
- From Etruscan 𐌌𐌖𐌈 (muθ, “pit, mundus”).
- From Proto-Indo-European *mh₂nd- (“to adorn”) and cognate with Old High German mandag (“joyful, happy, dashing”); an Etruscan form 𐌈𐌍𐌖𐌌 (munθ) "order, kit, ornament" is attested also. Possibly also conflated in the sense of "clean, neat" with Proto-Indo-European *mewH- (“to wash, wet”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmun.dus/, [ˈmʊn̪d̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmun.dus/, [ˈmun̪d̪us]
Adjective
mundus (feminine munda, neuter mundum, comparative mundior, superlative mundissimus, adverb munditer); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | mundus | munda | mundum | mundī | mundae | munda | |
Genitive | mundī | mundae | mundī | mundōrum | mundārum | mundōrum | |
Dative | mundō | mundō | mundīs | ||||
Accusative | mundum | mundam | mundum | mundōs | mundās | munda | |
Ablative | mundō | mundā | mundō | mundīs | |||
Vocative | munde | munda | mundum | mundī | mundae | munda |
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “clean, pure”): immundus
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From mundus (adjective). In the sense “universe”, calque of Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos).
Noun
mundus m (genitive mundī); second declension
- ornaments, decorations, dress (of a woman)
- implement
- universe, world, esp. the heavens and the heavenly bodies
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.545–546:
- Sed quid et Ōrīōn et cētera sīdera mundō
cēdere festīnant, noxque coartat iter?- But why are Orion and the other star-patterns hurrying to depart from heaven, and night is curtailing its journey?
(It is May; nighttime is becoming shorter, and Ovid imagines even the mighty Orion (constellation) hurrying from the sky because Rome will soon celebrate the Temple of Mars Ultor; see also: Mars (mythology).)
- But why are Orion and the other star-patterns hurrying to depart from heaven, and night is curtailing its journey?
- Sed quid et Ōrīōn et cētera sīdera mundō
- mankind (inhabitants of the earth)
- Lucan, Pharsalia 5.469–471:
- miserīque fuit spēs inrita mundī, / posse ducēs parvā campī statiōne diremptōs / admōtum damnāre nefās.
- The unfortunate world's hope turned out in vain, the hope that the leaders, separated by a small field distance, could condemn the impiety drawing near.
- miserīque fuit spēs inrita mundī, / posse ducēs parvā campī statiōne diremptōs / admōtum damnāre nefās.
- 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Evangelium secundum Ioannem.3.16:
- Sic enim dilexit Deus mundum ut filium suum unigenitum daret, ut omnis qui credit in eum non pereat, sed habeat vitam aeternam.
- For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, so that whoever believes in him may not perish but have eternal life.
- Sic enim dilexit Deus mundum ut filium suum unigenitum daret, ut omnis qui credit in eum non pereat, sed habeat vitam aeternam.
- (Medieval Latin) century
- (Medieval Latin) group of people
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | mundus | mundī |
Genitive | mundī | mundōrum |
Dative | mundō | mundīs |
Accusative | mundum | mundōs |
Ablative | mundō | mundīs |
Vocative | munde | mundī |
Derived terms
Descendants
Descendants
- Basque: mundu
- Corsican: munnu
- Esperanto: mondo
- Ido: mondo
- Interlingua: mundo
- Istriot: mondo
- Italian: mondo
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: mundo
- Neapolitan: munno
- Old French: monde, mont, mund
- Old Leonese:
- Old Occitan: mon
- Old Galician-Portuguese: mundo
- Old Spanish: mundo
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Sardinian: mundhu, mundu, munnu
- Sicilian: munnu
- Venetian: móndo
References
- “mundus1”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mundus2”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mundus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- mundus 1 mundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- mundus 2 mundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the universe: rerum or mundi universitas
- the perfect harmony of the universe: totius mundi convenientia et consensus
- God made the world: deus mundum aedificavit, fabricatus est, effecit (not creavit)
- God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum
- a citizen of the world; cosmopolitan: mundanus, mundi civis et incola (Tusc. 5. 37)
- the universe: rerum or mundi universitas
- “mundus”, in Samuel Ball Platner (1929) Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 394-5
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