caelebs

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Uncertain. Suggestions include Proto-Indo-European *keywelo- (“alone”), but root obscure and suffix unexplained, see also Sanskrit केवल (kevala, “alone”); possibly a suffixation of Proto-Indo-European *koyl- *keh₂i-lo- (“safe, unharmed, whole”). [1]

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkae̯.leps/, [ˈkae̯.ɫɛps]

Adjective

caelebs (genitive caelibis); third declension

  1. unmarried, single

Inflection

Third declension.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
nominative caelebs caelibēs caelibia
genitive caelibis caelibium
dative caelibī caelibibus
accusative caelibem caelebs caelibēs caelibia
ablative caelibī caelibibus
vocative caelebs caelibēs caelibia

Citations

  • Horatius, epistulae, liber I. In: Horace Satires, Epistles and Ars poetica with an English translation by H. Rushton Fairclough, 1942, p. 258 f.:
    nil ait esse prius, melius nil caelibe vita ;
    si non est, iurat bene solis esse maritis.
    " Nothing," he says, " is finer or better than a single life." If it is not, he swears that only the married are well off.

Descendants

References

  • caelebs in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • caelebs in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • caelebs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  1. ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “caelebs”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 80
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