intestīnus
Meaning
- adjectivecivic, domestic, internal
[…]eōrum autem castrōrum imperātōrem ducemque hostium, intrā moenia atque adeō in senātū vidētis, intestīnam aliquam cotīdiē perniciem reī pūblicae mōlientem.
You see, however, the commander of the camp and the leader of the enemy, inside our city walls and even in the Senate, striving every day to bring about some internal destruction of the republic.63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.5 - adjectiveindividual, personal, private
- adjectiveinternal, inward
Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Caro · Pulpa · Viscera · Exta · Intestina · Ilia
1. Caro means flesh in its general sense, as a material substance, in opp. to fat, nerves, muscles, and so forth; pulpa, especially, eatable and savory flesh, in opp. to bones; viscera, all flesh, and every fleshy substance between the skin and the bones. 2. Viscera, in a narrower sense, means generally, the inner parts of the body; whereas exta means the inner parts of the upper part of the body, as the heart, lungs, and so forth; intestina, interanea, and ilia, the inner parts of the lower part of the body, namely, the entrails; and indeed intestina, and, in the age after Augustus, interanea, meant the guts as digestive organs; ilia, all that is contained in the lower part of the body, and particularly those parts that are serviceable. (v. 145.)
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | intestīnus | intestīna | intestīnum |
| genitive | intestīnī | intestīnae | intestīnī |
| dative | intestīnō | intestīnae | intestīnō |
| accusative | intestīnum | intestīnam | intestīnum |
| ablative | intestīnō | intestīnā | intestīnō |
| vocative | intestīne | intestīna | intestīnum |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | intestīnī | intestīnae | intestīna |
| genitive | intestīnōrum | intestīnārum | intestīnōrum |
| dative | intestīnīs | intestīnīs | intestīnīs |
| accusative | intestīnōs | intestīnās | intestīna |
| ablative | intestīnīs | intestīnīs | intestīnīs |
| vocative | intestīnī | intestīnae | intestīna |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- bellum intestinum, domesticum (opp. bellum externum)
- a civil war.
occultum, intestinum ac domesticum malum, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 15; id. Fam. 7, 25, 2: bellum, id. Cat. 2, 13, 28; Nep. Ham. 2, 1; Just. 3, 4, 2; Suet. Calig. 5: discordia, Just. 20, 5: opus, inlaid work, fine joiner's work: villa opere tectorio et intestino spectanda, Varr. R. R. 3, 1: opera, Plin. 16, 42, 82, § 225. — loto terram ferit intestino, Juv. 6, 429; Cels. 2, 1; 7, 16 al.—Also, m.: intestīnus, i (sc. canalis), Plin. 11, 37, 78, § 199.— reliquiae cibi depelluntur, tum adstringentibus se intestinis, tum relaxantibus, Cic. N. D. 2, 55: laborare ex intestinis, to be disordered in the bowels, id. Fam. 7, 26: capiunt plus intestina poetae, Juv. 7, 78. — intestinum tenuius, crassius, jejunum, caecum, rectum, the straight gut, rectum, Cels. 4, 1: imum, rectum, Nep. Att. 21, 3.— Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
The first element from inter (“between”) (so De Vaan 2008) or intus (“within; inwards”) (so WH 1938), both from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”) - cf. in (“in”), interior (“inner”), intrā (“on the inside, within”); the second element represents a compound with Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“stand”) (Latin stō): zero-grade extended by -i-, or e-grade with later remodelling after -īnus (so De Vaan); or is a chaining of the suffixes *-tyo- and *-nós (so WH). Compare internus, without the middle element.
- Frenchintestin
- Italianintestino
In English words that came into English from intestīnus
- intestineintestīnum