mundus

English

mundus

Two possibilities include:

From Etruscan 𐌌𐌖𐌈 (muθ, “pit, mundus”).
From Proto-Indo-European *mh₂nd- (“to adorn”) and cognate with Old High German mandag (“joyful, happy, dashing”). Possibly also conflated in the sense of "clean, neat" with Proto-Indo-European *muh₂-, *meuh₂- (“to wash, wet”).

mundus (feminine munda, neuter mundum); first/second declension

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
nominative	mundus	munda	mundum	mundī	mundae	munda
genitive	mundī	mundae	mundī	mundōrum	mundārum	mundōrum
dative	mundō	mundae	mundō	mundīs
accusative	mundum	mundam	mundum	mundōs	mundās	munda
ablative	mundō	mundā	mundō	mundīs
vocative	munde	munda	mundum	mundī	mundae	munda

From mundus (see above).

mundus m (genitive mundī); second declension

toilet ornaments, decorations, dress (of a woman)
implement
(= κόσμος (kósmos)) the universe, the world, esp. the heavens and the heavenly bodies
the inhabitants of the earth, mankind
(eccl. Lat.) the world as opposed to the church; this world, the realm of sin and death, as opposed to Christ's kingdom of holiness and life

Second declension.

Basque: mundu
Esperanto: mondo
- Ido: mondo
Interlingua: mundo
Istriot: mondo
Italian: mondo
Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: mundo
Neapolitan: munno
Old French: monde, mund
- French: monde
  - Haitian Creole: mond
- Norman: maonde
- Walloon: monde
Old Leonese:
- Asturian: mundiu, mundu
- Extremaduran: mundu
- Leonese: mundiu
- Mirandese: mundo

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, 1883–1887)
1 mundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
2 mundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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)
mundus in Samuel Ball Platner (1929), Thomas Ashby, editor, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome, London: Oxford University Press

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