vagabundus

Latin

Etymology

From verb vagor (“I wander”) +‎ -bundus. Compare vādō (“I walk”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯a.ɡaːˈbun.dus/, [u̯äɡäːˈbʊn̪d̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /va.ɡaˈbun.dus/, [väɡäˈbun̪d̪us]

Adjective

vagābundus (feminine vagābunda, neuter vagābundum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Late Latin) strolling about

   Synonyms: errābundus, vagus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	vagābundus	vagābunda	vagābundum		vagābundī	vagābundae	vagābunda
Genitive	vagābundī	vagābundae	vagābundī		vagābundōrum	vagābundārum	vagābundōrum
Dative	vagābundō		vagābundō		vagābundīs
Accusative	vagābundum	vagābundam	vagābundum		vagābundōs	vagābundās	vagābunda
Ablative	vagābundō	vagābundā	vagābundō		vagābundīs
Vocative	vagābunde	vagābunda	vagābundum		vagābundī	vagābundae	vagābunda

Descendants

• Catalan: vagabund
• English: vagabond
• French: vagabond
  • Romanian: vagabond
• Friulian: vagabont
• Galician: vagabundo
• Italian: vagabondo
• Piedmontese: vagabond
• Portuguese: vagabundo
• Sardinian: bundu
• Spanish: vagabundo

References

• “vagabundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vagabundus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• vagabundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.