agrestis

== Latin == === Etymology === Dissimilated from earlier *agrestris, from ager (“field, farm”) +‎ -estris (“located, dwelling in”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈɡrɛs.tɪs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈɡrɛs.tis] === Adjective === agrestis (neuter agreste); third-declension two-termination adjective Of or pertaining to land, fields or the countryside; rural, rustic, wild. Clownish, rude, uncultivated, coarse, savage, barbarous; brutish, wild. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension two-termination adjective. ==== Synonyms ==== (rural): rūsticus ==== 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