caelum – Latin noun declension

Noun: caelum
Hyphenation:

Gender: Neuter Declension: Second

Nominative

Singular	caelum
Plural	caelī; caela

Genitive

Singular	caelī
Plural	caelōrum

Dative

Singular	caelō
Plural	caelīs

Accusative

Singular	caelum
Plural	caelōs; caela

Ablative

Singular	caelō
Plural	caelīs

Vocative

Singular	caelum
Plural	caelī; caela

Sample Sentences

illa ego sum, cui tū solitus prōmittere caelum. ei mihi, prō caelō quālia dōna ferō! (I am the woman to whom you used to promise heaven. Alas, in place of heaven what kind of gifts do I get? (trans. Anne and Peter Wiseman, 2011)) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 3.505–506]
viditque in somnis scalam stantem super terram et cacumen illius tangens caelum (And he saw in his dream a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven) [Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Genesis 28:12:]
Horace, Epistles I.xi.27 http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/horace/epist1.shtml (translation Eugene Ehrlich, Say It in Latin, →ISBN (Those who cross the sea change the sky not their spirits.)
Regiones autem, quas debent spectare aedes sacrae deorum inmortalium, sic erunt constituendae, uti, si nulla ratio inpedierit liberaque fuerit potestas, aedis signumque quod erit in cella conlocatum, spectet ad vespertinam caeli regionem, uti, qui adierint ad aram immolantes aut sacrificia facientes, spectent ad partem caeli orientis et simulacrum, quod erit in aede, et ita vota suscipientes contueantur aedem et orientem caeli ipsaque simulacra videantur exorientia contueri supplicantes et sacrificantes, quod aras omnes deorum necesse esse videatur ad orientem spectare. (The directions which the sacred temples of the immortal gods ought to face should be so arranged that, if there is no reason to the contrary and the architect has full power, the temple and the image in the shrine should face to the west, in order that those who approach the altar to offer or to sacrifice may see to the east the image in the shrine, and that in making their vows they may behold the temple and the east[ern part of the sky], and that the images themselves may appear rising in the east to behold such as offer prayer and sacrifice.) [c. 15 BCE, Vitruvius, De architectura 4.5.1]
in caelo ponere aliquem (to deem someone to be the greatest, best, etc.)
Quid quaeris? Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
Quae vos ad caelum fertis rumore secundo,
Utque sacerdotis fugitivus liba recuso, (What do you want from me? I live, I am my own master, I left behind the self same things you by common approval so eagerly covet, like the fugitive I have no right to the priest's blessed cake, but bread will quench my hunger over any honeyed delicacy.) [20 BCE – 14 BCE, Horatius, Epistulae IX.9–11]

Nouns inflected like caelum

caelum,

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from Proto-Italic *kailom (with a gender change to masculine), from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂i-lom (“whole”), originating in the augural sphere and indicating "the whole" as opposed to templum (“the part”) and cognate with Latin caelebs (and perhaps sincērus and caerimōnia), Russian це́лый (célyj, “whole, intact”), Proto-Germanic *hailaz. May be cognate of Oscan 𐌊𐌀𐌝𐌋𐌀 (kaíla, “perh. a kind of building”). The shift from neuter to masculine is irregular. Kroonen, however, entirely dismisses the proposed connection between this Latin term and the Germanic forms. See: Latin Nouns 'caelebs'.

Verbs referencing "caelum"

French Nouns ciel, Italian Nouns cielo, Old Spanish Nouns cielo, Spanish Nouns cielo, Galician Nouns ceo, Old Portuguese Nouns ceo, Catalan Nouns cel, Romanian Nouns cer, Portuguese Nouns céu, Spanish Nouns cielito, Asturian Nouns cielu.