significans, significantis (gen.), significantior -or -us, significantissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension · variant: 1st
- Frequency:
- Lesser
significant, meaningful; conveying meaning; expressive;
Inflections
positive
neuter
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nom. | — | significantia |
| Acc. | significans | significantia |
| Voc. | — | significantia |
comparative
neuter
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nom. | significantius | significantiora |
| Gen. | significantioris | — |
| Acc. | significantius | significantiora |
| Voc. | significantius | significantiora |
superlative
masculine
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nom. | significantissimus | significantissimi |
| Gen. | significantissimi | significantissimorum |
| Dat. | significantissimo | — |
| Acc. | significantissimum | significantissimos |
| Voc. | significantissime | significantissimi |
| Abl. | significantissimo | — |
feminine
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nom. | significantissima | significantissimae |
| Gen. | significantissimae | significantissimarum |
| Dat. | significantissimae | — |
| Acc. | significantissimam | significantissimas |
| Voc. | significantissima | significantissimae |
| Abl. | significantissima | — |
neuter
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nom. | significantissimum | significantissima |
| Gen. | significantissimi | significantissimorum |
| Dat. | significantissimo | — |
| Acc. | significantissimum | significantissima |
| Voc. | significantissimum | significantissima |
| Abl. | significantissimo | — |
Examples
- A
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...vetus esse proverbium "inter os et offam" idem significans, quod Graecus ille paroimiodes versus: polla metaxy pelei kylikos..." - L
Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...bonis bono reddita; laus oratio, vox est aliquid significans; vox est autem, licet virorum sit <bonorum, non> bonum..." - L
APOCOLOCYNTOSIS
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...Itaque et ipse Homerico versu Caesarem se esse significans ait: Ἰλιόθεν με φέρων ἄνεμος Κικόνεσσι πέλασσεν Erat autem..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...videtur. XLIV. Locorum quoque dilucida et significans descriptio eidem virtuti adsignatur a quibusdam, alii topographian dicunt. Eironeian inveni..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...Cicero recte "sentinam rei publicae" dixit, foeditatem hominum significans, idcirco probem illud quoque veteris oratoris: "persecuisti rei publicae..." 
Liber Octavus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...ipse dab<at, i>am nubiferam transire Carambin significans, iam regna Lyci, totiensque gementem fallit ad Haemonios hortatus..."- P
Liber VI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Galba, quandoque degustabis imperium,' seram ac brevem potentiam significans, scientia Chaldaeorum artis, cuius apiscendae otium apud Rhodum, magistrum..."