adjectivethird-declension two-termination adjective
mīlitāris1
mīlitāris (neuter mīlitāre, adverb mīlitāriter)
Classical[miː.lɪˈtaː.rɪs]Ecclesiastical[mi.liˈtaː.ris]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- two terminationOf a soldier: soldierly; or of the military: martial.
- two terminationOf or pertaining to war.
- two terminationWarlike.
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
quī mīlitum est; rēs mīlitāris.mīlitāris -e — in Mille Verba, Bellum et Arma
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | mīlitāris | mīlitāris | mīlitāre |
| genitive | mīlitāris | mīlitāris | mīlitāris |
| dative | mīlitārī | mīlitārī | mīlitārī |
| accusative | mīlitārem | mīlitārem | mīlitāre |
| ablative | mīlitārī | mīlitārī | mīlitārī |
| vocative | mīlitāris | mīlitāris | mīlitāre |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | mīlitārēs | mīlitārēs | mīlitāria |
| genitive | mīlitārium | mīlitārium | mīlitārium |
| dative | mīlitāribus | mīlitāribus | mīlitāribus |
| accusative | mīlitārīs mīlitārēs | mīlitārīs mīlitārēs | mīlitāria |
| ablative | mīlitāribus | mīlitāribus | mīlitāribus |
| vocative | mīlitārēs | mīlitārēs | mīlitāria |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- aetas militaris
- military age.
- rei militaris rudem esse
- to have had no experience in war.
- magnum usum in re militari habere (Sest. 5. 12)
- to possess great experience in military matters.
mīlitāris, e, adj. miles,
I. of or belonging to a soldier, to war, or to military service, proper to or usual with soldiers, military, warlike, martial (class.):
militares pueri, soldiers' children, officers' sons, Plaut. Truc. 5, 16: homo, id. Ep. 1, 1, 14: advena, id. Ps. 4, 1, 20: tribuni, Cic. Clu. 36, 99: vir, Tac. H. 2, 75: homines, Sall. C. 45, 2.— Also subst.: mīlĭtāris, is, m., a military man, soldier, warrior: cur neque militaris Inter aequales equitat? Hor. C. 1, 8, 5: praesidia militarium, Tac. A. 14, 33.—Of inanim. and abstr. things: panis, Plin. 18, 7, 12, § 67: institutum, Caes. B. C. 3, 75: usus, id. ib. 3, 103: res, id. B. G. 1, 21: disciplina, Liv. 8, 34: labor, Cic. Mur. 5, 11: signa, military ensigns, standards, id. Cat. 2, 6, 13: ornatus, id. Off. 1, 18, 61: leges, id. Fl. 32, 77: animi, Tac. A. 1, 32: sepimentum, Varr. 1, 14, 2: ire militaribus gradibus, to march, Plaut. Ps. 4, 4, 11: aetas, the age for bearing arms (from the seventeenth to the forty-sixth year), Liv. 25, 5: via, a military road, a highway on which an army can march, id. 36, 15: herba, an herb good for wounds, also called millefolium, Plin. 24, 18, 104, § 168.—Also an appellation of Jupiter, App. de Mundo, p. 75.—In comp.: quis justior et militarior Scipione? more militarily strict, Tert. Apol. 11 fin.—Hence, adv.: mīlĭtārĭter, in a soldierly or military manner (rare; not in Cic. or Cæs.), Liv. 4, 41; 27, 3; Tac. H. 2, 80; Dig. 49, 16, 4, § 9.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
mīlitāris e, adj.
miles, of a soldier, of war , of military service, military, warlike, martial : tribuni: homines, S.: militarīs Inter aequalīs, H.: institutum, Cs.: disciplina, L.: signa, military ensigns : leges: aetas, of service in the army (from 17 to 46), L.: via, a military road , L.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin -āris Latin mīlitāris From mīles (“soldier”) + -āris.
Descendants
- Catalanmilitar
- Italianmilitare
- Frenchmilitairefrom Middle French militaire
- Englishmilitairefrom Middle French militaire
- GermanMilitärfrom Middle French militaire
- Romanianmilitarfrom Middle French militaire
- Englishmilitaryfrom Middle French militaire
- Occitanmilitar
- Portuguesemilitar
- Spanishmilitar
In English words that came into English from mīlitāris
- militarymīlitāris