plebeius

== Latin == === Etymology === From plēbēs + -ius. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɫeːˈbeː.jʊs] [-eː.jʊs] (as opposed to [-ɛj.jʊs]) supposed on the basis of etymology (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [pleˈbɛː.jus] === Adjective === plēbēius (feminine plēbēia, neuter plēbēium); first/second-declension adjective (relational) plebeian, of or from the plebs of the common people or populace, vulgar mean, low ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === Noun === plēbeius m (genitive plēbeiī or plēbeī); second declension plebeian ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “plēbēĭus (-ējus)”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “plebeius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "plebeius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “plebeius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “plēbeius” in volume 10, part 1, column 2375, line 1 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present plebeius, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011