remotus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /reˈmoː.tus/, [rɛˈmoːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈmo.tus/, [reˈmɔːt̪us]

Adjective

remōtus (feminine remōta, neuter remōtum, comparative remōtior, superlative remōtissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. remote, distant, far off

   Synonym: longinquus

   Antonyms: propinquus, vīcīnus, contiguus, fīnitimus, proximus

2. removed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	remōtus	remōta	remōtum		remōtī	remōtae	remōta
genitive	remōtī	remōtae	remōtī		remōtōrum	remōtārum	remōtōrum
dative	remōtō	remōtae	remōtō		remōtīs
accusative	remōtum	remōtam	remōtum		remōtōs	remōtās	remōta
ablative	remōtō	remōtā	remōtō		remōtīs
vocative	remōte	remōta	remōtum		remōtī	remōtae	remōta

Related terms

• removeo

Descendants

• Catalan: remot
• English: remote
• Galician: remoto
• Italian: remoto
• Portuguese: remoto
• Spanish: remoto

References

• “remotus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “remotus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• remotus 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)
• remotus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • joking apart: extra iocum, remoto ioco (Fam. 7. 11. 3)
    
  • in private; tête-à-tête: remotis arbitris or secreto