tantus

== Latin == === Etymology === From tam (“so”) +‎ -tus (adjectival/adverbial ending); compare quantus, intus, subtus. One alternate etymology supposes direct continuation from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂-n̥t-os. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtan.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtan.tus] === Adjective === tantus (feminine tanta, neuter tantum); first/second-declension adjective of such size, of such measure so much, so great, such, so many ==== Usage notes ==== Being naturally an adjective, tantus was then used substantively as tantum (frequently with genitive) to mean "so much of", "so many of"; as tantī (pretiī) to mean "so high (a price)" [called the genitive of indefinite value]; adverbially as tantum to mean "so much", "to such degree" (cf. tam); as tantō to mean "by so much". For all these quantus has its coordinate functions. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “tantus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tantus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “tantus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.