caelebs

Meaning

1. one terminationusuallyunmarried, single
2. one terminationassociated with or pertaining to being single, solitary or unmarried
   Nil ait esse prius, melius nil caelibe vita."Nothing," he says, "is finer or better than a single life." If it is not, he swears that only the married are well off.Horatius, epistulae, liber I. In: Horace Satires, Epistles and Ars poetica with an English translation by H. Rushton Fairclough, 1942, p. 258 f.
   Quod mihi fortuna casuque oppressus acerbo conscriptum hoc lacrimis mittis epistolium, naufragum ut eiectum spumantibus aequoris undis sublevem et a mortis limine restituam, quem neque sancta Venus molli requiescere somno desertum in lecto caelibe perpetitur, nec veterum dulci scriptorum carmine Musae oblectant, cum mens anxia pervigilat: id gratumst mihi, me quoniam tibi dicis amicum,1913 translation by F. W. Cornish, J. P. Postgate, J. W. Mackail, G. P. Goold That you, weighed down as you are by fortune and bitter chance, should send me this letter written with tears, to bid me succour a shipwrecked man cast up by the foaming waters of the sea, and restore him from the threshold of death, whom neither does holy Venus suffer to rest, deserted in his widowed bed, nor do the Muses charm him with the sweet poetry of ancient writers, when his mind keeps anxious vigil;—this is grateful to me, since you call me your friend, and come to me for the gifts of the Muses and of Love.c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, carmina 68A.6
3. New Latinone terminationof a genus name: not yet formally associated with any specific epithet as part of a complete binomial species name
   Cuvier mentioned no specific names in connection with his new genus Otomys and it would appear to be a genus caelebs.1951, G. H. Swynnerton, R. W. Hayman, “A Checklist of the Land Mammals of the Tanganyika Territory and the Zanzibar Protectorate”, in Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society, volume 20, numbers 6-7 (overall work in English), page 321:
   He named Clavigera and Rastelligera as new brachiopod genera to accommodate these forms, but no species being cited by him here or in a further publication (1878b), these remained genera caeliba. ¶ McKay (1878, pp. 87-9) listed fossils—mainly as genera—collected by him from 14 Otapirian localities in the Hokonui Hills.1955, J. D. Campbell, I. C. McKellar, “The Otapirian Stage of the Triassic System of New Zealand, Part I”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 83, 1955-56 (overall work in English), Royal Society of New Zealand, page 696:

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Declension

Origins

Unknown. Suggestions include Proto-Indo-European *kéywelos (“alone”), whence Sanskrit केवल (kévala, “alone”), but the root is obscure and the suffix unexplained. Alternatively, possibly a suffixation of the similarly-shaped Proto-Indo-European *koyl- (see *kéh₂ilos (“safe, unharmed, whole”)), via unattested *cael, though the b in the Latin form remains mysterious.

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