Celticus

See also: celticus

Latin

Alternative forms

• celticus

Etymology

Celtae (“Celts”) +‎ -icus

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɛɫ.tɪ.kʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛl.ti.kus]

Adjective

Celticus (feminine Celtica, neuter Celticum, adverb Celticē); first/second-declension adjective

1. Celtic

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	Celticus	Celtica	Celticum		Celticī	Celticae	Celtica
genitive	Celticī	Celticae	Celticī		Celticōrum	Celticārum	Celticōrum
dative	Celticō	Celticae	Celticō		Celticīs
accusative	Celticum	Celticam	Celticum		Celticōs	Celticās	Celtica
ablative	Celticō	Celticā	Celticō		Celticīs
vocative	Celtice	Celtica	Celticum		Celticī	Celticae	Celtica

Derived terms

• Celtica
• Celticē
• Celticī
• Celticum

Descendants

• Galician: Céltigos
• → English: Celtic
• → French: celtique
• → Galician: céltico
• → Italian: celtico
• → Portuguese: céltico
• → Spanish: céltico

Noun

Celticus m (genitive Celticī); second declension

1. the Celtic nation, the land of the Celts
2. (<span id="rfv-sense-notice-la-not in dicts (like L&S, Du Cange et al., Gaffiot), compared with e.g. Latīnum & Graecum it's rather neuter Celticum; also there's not a single Celtic language but several languages, so possible it's rather something like "the Celtic languages viewed as a single language, the Celtic language family"">Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) the Celtic language

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	Celticus	Celticī
genitive	Celticī	Celticōrum
dative	Celticō	Celticīs
accusative	Celticum	Celticōs
ablative	Celticō	Celticīs
vocative	Celtice	Celticī

References

• “Celtae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "Celticus", 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)
• Celticus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016