localis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *stel-der.?

Proto-Italic *s(t)lokos

Old Latin stlocus

Latin locus

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin locālis

From locus + -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫɔˈkaː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [loˈkaː.lis]

Adjective

locālis (neuter locāle, adverb locāliter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. Belong to a place; local

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	locālis	locāle		locālēs	locālia
genitive	locālis			locālium
dative	locālī			locālibus
accusative	locālem	locāle		locālīs locālēs	locālia
ablative	locālī			locālibus
vocative	locālis	locāle		locālēs	locālia

Related terms

• locus

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: locale (“room”)
  • Sicilian: lucali
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: logar
    • Fala: lugal
    • Galician: lugar
    • Portuguese: lugar
  • Old Leonese: lugar, logar, llogar
    • Asturian: llugar
    • Leonese: llugar, llougar
    • Mirandese: lhugar
  • Old Spanish: logar
    • Ladino: lugar
    • Spanish: lugar
• Borrowings:
  • → Asturian: llocal
  • → Catalan: local
  • → English: local, locale
  • → French: local
    • → Danish: lokale
    • → Romanian: local
    • → Turkish: lokal
  • → Galician: local
  • → Hungarian: lokális
  • → Italian: locale (“local”)
  • → Mirandese: lhocal
  • → Piedmontese: local
  • → Portuguese: local
  • → Spanish: local

References

• “localis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “localis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.