osus
See also: ošus and -osus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect active participle of ōdī (“hate; dislike”), likewise used in the present active meaning in earlier Latin.
Participle
ōsus (feminine ōsa, neuter ōsum); first/second-declension participle
- (Ante-Classical Latin, active) Alternative form of ōdī
- 8th century CE, Paulus Diaconus, Karl Otfried Müller, editor, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 201:
- Ōsī sunt, ab odiō dēclīnāsse antīquōs testis est C. Gracchus in eā, quae est dē lēge Minuciā, cum ait: 'Mīrum sī quid hīs iniūriae fit; semper eōs ōsī sunt.' Quod nunc quoque cum praepositiōne ēlātum frequēns est, quandō dīcimus semper perōsī.
- That the old authors formed ōsī sunt from odium is witnessed by Gaius Gracchus in his Minucian law speech, when he says: 'It would be remarkable if any injury happens to these people; they've always hated those people.' This word is frequent even now when intensified by a prefix, since we always say perōsī.
- Ōsī sunt, ab odiō dēclīnāsse antīquōs testis est C. Gracchus in eā, quae est dē lēge Minuciā, cum ait: 'Mīrum sī quid hīs iniūriae fit; semper eōs ōsī sunt.' Quod nunc quoque cum praepositiōne ēlātum frequēns est, quandō dīcimus semper perōsī.
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- (Late Latin, passive, rare, learned) Alternative form of perōsus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | ōsus | ōsa | ōsum | ōsī | ōsae | ōsa | |
Genitive | ōsī | ōsae | ōsī | ōsōrum | ōsārum | ōsōrum | |
Dative | ōsō | ōsō | ōsīs | ||||
Accusative | ōsum | ōsam | ōsum | ōsōs | ōsās | ōsa | |
Ablative | ōsō | ōsā | ōsō | ōsīs | |||
Vocative | ōse | ōsa | ōsum | ōsī | ōsae | ōsa |
Derived terms
- perōsus
- exōsus
Related terms
- ōdī
- odiō
References
- “osus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “osus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- osus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette