pestilens

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === Probably a back-formation from pestilentus, from pestis (“disease, plague; pest; destruction”). ==== Adjective ==== pestilēns (genitive pestilentis); third-declension one-termination adjective pestilential, infected, unhealthy noxious, destructive, pestilent ===== Declension ===== Third-declension one-termination adjective. ===== Derived terms ===== pestilentiōsus ===== Descendants ===== Catalan: pestilent Italian: pestilente Portuguese: pestilente Spanish: pestilente === Etymology 2 === From pestilēns (“noxious, pestilent”). ==== Noun ==== pestilēns m (genitive pestilentis); third declension a pestilent or noxious man ===== Declension ===== Third-declension noun. === Related terms === pestilentia pestis === References === “pestilens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “pestilens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “pestilens”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.