periculosus
Latin
Etymology
From perīculum (“an attempt, risk”) + -ōsus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /pe.riː.kuˈloː.sus/, [pɛriːkʊˈɫ̪oːs̠ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pe.ri.kuˈlo.sus/, [perikuˈlɔːs̬us]
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Adjective
perīculōsus (feminine perīculōsa, neuter perīculōsum, superlative perīculōsissimus, adverb perīculōsē); first/second-declension adjective
- dangerous, hazardous, perilous
- Synonyms: anceps, īnfēnsus, dubius, capitālis
- c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 15:
- Horum te mori nemo coget, omnes docebunt; horum nemo annos tuos conteret, suos tibi contribuet; nullius ex his sermo periculosus erit, nullius amicitia capitalis, nullius sumptuosa obseruatio.
- No one of these will force you to die, but all will teach you how to die; no one of these will wear out your years, but each will add his own years to yours; conversations with no one of these will bring you peril, the friendship of none will endanger your life, the courting of none will tax your purse.
- Horum te mori nemo coget, omnes docebunt; horum nemo annos tuos conteret, suos tibi contribuet; nullius ex his sermo periculosus erit, nullius amicitia capitalis, nullius sumptuosa obseruatio.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | perīculōsus | perīculōsa | perīculōsum | perīculōsī | perīculōsae | perīculōsa | |
| Genitive | perīculōsī | perīculōsae | perīculōsī | perīculōsōrum | perīculōsārum | perīculōsōrum | |
| Dative | perīculōsō | perīculōsō | perīculōsīs | ||||
| Accusative | perīculōsum | perīculōsam | perīculōsum | perīculōsōs | perīculōsās | perīculōsa | |
| Ablative | perīculōsō | perīculōsā | perīculōsō | perīculōsīs | |||
| Vocative | perīculōse | perīculōsa | perīculōsum | perīculōsī | perīculōsae | perīculōsa | |
Related terms
- perīculōsē
- perīculum
Descendants
Descendants
- Asturian: peligrosu
- Catalan: perillós
- Italian: pericoloso
- English: periculous
- Galician: perigoso
- Old French: perilleus
- English: perilous
- French: périlleux
- Friulian: periculôs
- Occitan: perilhós
- Portuguese: perigoso, periculoso
- Romanian: periculos
- Romansch: privlus, prigulus, prievlus
- Sardinian: periculosu, perigulosu, pirigulosu
- Sicilian: piriculusu, priculusu
- Spanish: peligroso
- Venetian: pericołoxo, pericołoso, pericoloso
- → Proto-Brythonic: *periglʉs
- Middle Welsh: peryglus
- Welsh: peryglus
- Middle Welsh: peryglus
References
- “periculosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “periculosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- periculosus 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)
- periculosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- periculosus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016