agrestis

Latin

Etymology

Dissimilated from earlier *agrestris, from ager (“field, farm”) +‎ -estris (“located, dwelling in”). Root cognate with Ancient Greek ἄγροικος (ágroikos).

Compare typologically pāgānus, rūsticus. See the opposite cīvīlis for more.

Pronunciation

agrestis:
- (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈɡrɛs.tɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈɡrɛs.tis]
agrestīs:
- (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈɡrɛs.tiːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈɡrɛs.tis]

Adjective

agrestis (neuter agreste, comparative agrestior, superlative agrestissimus, adverb agrestius); third-declension two-termination adjective

rural; rustic; wild (of or pertaining to land, fields or the countryside)
Synonym: rūsticus
(figurative) clownish; rude; uncultivated; coarse; savage; barbarous; brutish

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	masc./fem.	neuter	masc./fem.	neuter
	singular		plural
nominative	agrestis	agreste	agrestēs	agrestia
genitive	agrestis		agrestium
dative	agrestī		agrestibus
accusative	agrestem	agreste	agrestīs agrestēs	agrestia
ablative	agrestī		agrestibus
vocative	agrestis	agreste	agrestēs	agrestia

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

→ English: agrestic
French: agreste
Italian: agreste
Portuguese: agreste
Sardinian: aresti
Spanish: agreste

References

“agrestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“agrestis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“agrestis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ager, -grī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 29
Palmer, L.R. (1906) The Latin Language, London, Faber and Faber