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
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...vetus esse proverbium "inter os et offam" idem significans, quod Graecus ille paroimiodes versus: polla metaxy pelei kylikos..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."