otiosus

otiosus

Latin

Etymology

From ōtium (“leisure”) +‎ -ōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /oː.tiˈoː.sus/, [oːt̪iˈoːs̠ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ot.t͡siˈo.sus/, [ot̪ː͡s̪iˈɔːs̬us]

Adjective

ōtiōsus (feminine ōtiōsa, neuter ōtiōsum, superlative ōtiōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. idle
2. unemployed
3. free from office

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ōtiōsus	ōtiōsa	ōtiōsum		ōtiōsī	ōtiōsae	ōtiōsa
Genitive	ōtiōsī	ōtiōsae	ōtiōsī		ōtiōsōrum	ōtiōsārum	ōtiōsōrum
Dative	ōtiōsō		ōtiōsō		ōtiōsīs
Accusative	ōtiōsum	ōtiōsam	ōtiōsum		ōtiōsōs	ōtiōsās	ōtiōsa
Ablative	ōtiōsō	ōtiōsā	ōtiōsō		ōtiōsīs
Vocative	ōtiōse	ōtiōsa	ōtiōsum		ōtiōsī	ōtiōsae	ōtiōsa

Descendants

• → Catalan: ociós
• → English: otiose
• Old French: oisos
  • Middle French: oyseux
    • French: oiseux, → otiose
• → Italian: ozioso
• → Portuguese: ocioso
• → Sicilian: uzziusu
• → Old Spanish: ocioso
  • Spanish: ocioso

References

• “otiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “otiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• otiosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be at leisure: otiosum esse
    
  • to spend one's leisure hours on an object: otiosum tempus consumere in aliqua re
    
  • to devote all one's leisure moments to study: omne (otiosum) tempus in litteris consumere
    
  • the money is bringing in no interest, lies idle: pecunia iacet otiosa