utensilis

utensilis

1. plural of utensili

From ūtor, perhaps with an ending rebracketed from other adjectives in ēnsilis. Compare ūtilis.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [uːˈtẽː.sɪ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [uˈt̪ɛn.si.lis]

ūtēnsilis (neuter ūtēnsile); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (rare) useful

   Synonyms: opportūnus, commodus, habilis, idōneus, conveniēns, ūtilis, aptus, salūber

   Antonyms: incommodus, inūtilis, ineptus, irritus, ingrātus, gratuitus

   • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Agricultural Topics 1.2.6:

     Illic in semenstri die aut nocte quem ad modum quicquam seri aut alescere aut meti possit? Contra quid in Italia utensile non modo non nascitur, sed etiam non egregium fit?

     There, where either day or night is six month long, how may anything be set, grown and harvested? Now, what useful thing might not in Italy be found, aye and the best at that?

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• See ūtēnsilia
• → Italian: utensile

• “utensilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “utensilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “utensilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.