litterosus
Latin
Etymology
From litterae (“letters, learning”) + -ōsus (“full of”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /lit.teˈroː.sus/, [lʲɪt̪.t̪ɛˈroː.sʊs]
Adjective
litterōsus (feminine litterōsa, neuter litterōsum, comparative litterōsior, superlative litterōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- (hapax legomenon) cultured, learned
- CE 4th C., Nonius Marcellus (author), W. M. Lindsay (editor), Dē compendiōsā doctrīnā (1903), page 193:
- Litterōsus, litterātus. Cassius Hēmīna Annālium lib. III (28): 'homō merē litterōsus'.
- Litterōsus means cultured. Cassius Hemina in the third book of the Annals: 'a man wholly cultured'.
- Litterōsus, litterātus. Cassius Hēmīna Annālium lib. III (28): 'homō merē litterōsus'.
- CE 4th C., Nonius Marcellus (author), W. M. Lindsay (editor), Dē compendiōsā doctrīnā (1903), page 193:
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | litterōsus | litterōsa | litterōsum | litterōsī | litterōsae | litterōsa | |
Genitive | litterōsī | litterōsae | litterōsī | litterōsōrum | litterōsārum | litterōsōrum | |
Dative | litterōsō | litterōsō | litterōsīs | ||||
Accusative | litterōsum | litterōsam | litterōsum | litterōsōs | litterōsās | litterōsa | |
Ablative | litterōsō | litterōsā | litterōsō | litterōsīs | |||
Vocative | litterōse | litterōsa | litterōsum | litterōsī | litterōsae | litterōsa |
See also
- littera
- litterātus
References
- litterosus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- litterosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette