mediocris

Latin

Etymology

From medius and maybe ocris (“rugged mountain”), as if "halfway up".[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /meˈdi.o.kris/, [mɛˈdi.ɔ.krɪs]

Adjective

mediocris (neuter mediocre); third declension

  1. middling, moderate
  2. tolerable, ordinary, normal
  3. mediocre, indifferent

Declension

Third declension.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
nominative mediocris mediocre mediocrēs mediocria
genitive mediocris mediocrium
dative mediocrī mediocribus
accusative mediocrem mediocre mediocrēs mediocria
ablative mediocrī mediocribus
vocative mediocris mediocre mediocrēs mediocria
  • comparative: mediocrior, superlative: mediocrissimus

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 21
  • mediocris in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mediocris in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mediocris in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • mediocris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to adopt half-measures: mediocribus consiliis uti
    • a deep, high, thin, moderate voice: vox gravis, acuta, parva, mediocris
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