insidiosus
Latin
Etymology
From īnsidiae (“a lying in wait, an ambush, artifice, stratagem”) + -ōsus, from īnsideō (“sit in or on”), from in (“in, on”) + sedeō (“sit”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /in.si.diˈoː.sus/, [ĩː.sɪ.dɪˈoː.sʊs]
Adjective
īnsidiōsus (feminine īnsidiōsa, neuter īnsidiōsum); first/second declension
- cunning, deceitful, insidious
- dangerous, hazardous
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | īnsidiōsus | īnsidiōsa | īnsidiōsum | īnsidiōsī | īnsidiōsae | īnsidiōsa | |
| Genitive | īnsidiōsī | īnsidiōsae | īnsidiōsī | īnsidiōsōrum | īnsidiōsārum | īnsidiōsōrum | |
| Dative | īnsidiōsō | īnsidiōsō | īnsidiōsīs | ||||
| Accusative | īnsidiōsum | īnsidiōsam | īnsidiōsum | īnsidiōsōs | īnsidiōsās | īnsidiōsa | |
| Ablative | īnsidiōsō | īnsidiōsā | īnsidiōsō | īnsidiōsīs | |||
| Vocative | īnsidiōse | īnsidiōsa | īnsidiōsum | īnsidiōsī | īnsidiōsae | īnsidiōsa | |
- comparative: īnsidiōsior, superlative: īnsidiōsissimus
Derived terms
- īnsidiōsē
Related terms
- īnsideō
- īnsidianter
- īnsidiātor
- īnsidiātrīx
- īnsidior
Descendants
- Catalan: insidiós
- English: insidious
- French: insidieux
- Italian: insidioso
- Portuguese: insidioso
- Spanish: insidioso
References
- insidiosus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- insidiosus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- insidiosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette