operosus
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /o.peˈroː.sus/, [ɔpɛˈroːs̠ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /o.peˈro.sus/, [opeˈrɔːs̬us]
Adjective
operōsus (feminine operōsa, neuter operōsum, comparative operōsior); first/second-declension adjective
- painstaking
- active, busy, industrious
- laborious
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | operōsus | operōsa | operōsum | operōsī | operōsae | operōsa | |
Genitive | operōsī | operōsae | operōsī | operōsōrum | operōsārum | operōsōrum | |
Dative | operōsō | operōsō | operōsīs | ||||
Accusative | operōsum | operōsam | operōsum | operōsōs | operōsās | operōsa | |
Ablative | operōsō | operōsā | operōsō | operōsīs | |||
Vocative | operōse | operōsa | operōsum | operōsī | operōsae | operōsa |
Descendants
- English: operous, operose
- Italian: operoso
- Piedmontese: operos
References
- “operosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “operosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- operosus 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)
- operosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette