adjectivefirst/second-declension adjective
hodiernus
hodiernus (feminine hodierna, neuter hodiernum)
Classical[hɔ.diˈɛr.nʊs]Ecclesiastical[o.diˈɛr.nus]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- adjectivetoday's (of today)
- adjectivepresent, present-day
- adjectiveactual
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
huius diēī; diēs hodiernus = hic diēs quō nunc sumus.hodiernus -a -um — in Mille Verba, ch. Līmes: ad Carnuntum
huius diēī, quī nunc esthodiernus -a -um — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 26
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hodiernus | hodierna | hodiernum |
| genitive | hodiernī | hodiernae | hodiernī |
| dative | hodiernō | hodiernae | hodiernō |
| accusative | hodiernum | hodiernam | hodiernum |
| ablative | hodiernō | hodiernā | hodiernō |
| vocative | hodierne | hodierna | hodiernum |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | hodiernī | hodiernae | hodierna |
| genitive | hodiernōrum | hodiernārum | hodiernōrum |
| dative | hodiernīs | hodiernīs | hodiernīs |
| accusative | hodiernōs | hodiernās | hodierna |
| ablative | hodiernīs | hodiernīs | hodiernīs |
| vocative | hodiernī | hodiernae | hodierna |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- dies hesternus, hodiernus, crastinus
- yesterday, to-day, tomorrow.
hŏdĭernus, a, um, adj. hodie,
I. of this day, to-day's.
I. Lit.:
quod ex hodierno ejus edicto perspicere potestis, Cic. Phil. 4, 3, 7: disputatio hesterni et hodierni diei, id. de Or. 3, 21, 81: hodierno die, mane, today, id. Cat. 3, 9, 21: ante hodiernum diem, id. ib. 3, 8, 20: quis scit an adiciant hodiernae crastina summae Tempora di superi? Hor. C. 4, 7, 17: (Servio Tullio regnante) multo diutius Athenae jam erant quam est Roma ad hodiernum diem, Cic. Brut. 10, 39. —Poet. for hodie: sic venias, hodierne, Tib. 1, 7, 53.—II. (Acc. to hodie, II.) Of the present time, present, actual (rare and postAug.; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 524 sq.).— Only in neutr. absol.:
servatumque in hodiernum est, ne quis, etc., to this day, Plin. 33, 1, 7, § 30: in hodiernum, Min. Fel. Octav. 22 fin.; Dict. Cret. 3, 25: in hodiernum diem, to the present time, Vitr. 3, 1, 8; Aug. de Cons. Evang. 3, 24, 69.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
hodiernus adj.
hodie, of this day, to-day's : edictum: summa, H.—With dies, this day, to-day : hodierno die mane: ante hodiernum diem.
Origins
From hodiē + -rnus.
Descendants
- Englishhodiern
- Italianodierno
- Portuguesehodierno
- Spanishhodierno
In English words that came into English from hodiernus
- hodiernalhodiernus
- hodiernhodiernus