coniunctivus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === coniunctiuus, conjunctivus, conjunctiuus (letter-form variants) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɔn.juːŋkˈtiː.wʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kon.juŋkˈtiː.vus] === Etymology 1 === From coniūnctus (“united, connected”) + -īvus (“-ive”, relative adjective suffix). ==== Adjective ==== coniūnctīvus (feminine coniūnctīva, neuter coniūnctīvum); first/second-declension adjective (relational) relating to connection, serving to connect; connective, conjunctive composite, compound (grammar) conjunctive and/or subjunctive (the verbal mood that joins clauses together) Synonyms: subiūnctīvus, adiūnctīvus, coniūnctātīvus Quō enim pactō sine coniūnctīvō modō vīverēmus? ― How would we even be alive without the conjunctive mood? ===== Inflection ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 2 === Ellipsis of modus coniūnctīvus (“the joining-together mood”). ==== Noun ==== coniūnctīvus m (genitive coniūnctīvī); second declension (grammar) the conjunctive and/or subjunctive ===== Inflection ===== Second-declension noun. === References === “conjunctivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “coniunctivus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.