pilosus
Latin
Etymology
pilus (“hair”) + -ōsus
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /piˈloː.sus/, [pɪˈɫ̪oːs̠ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /piˈlo.sus/, [piˈlɔːs̬us]
Adjective
pilōsus (feminine pilōsa, neuter pilōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- hairy, shaggy
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | pilōsus | pilōsa | pilōsum | pilōsī | pilōsae | pilōsa | |
| Genitive | pilōsī | pilōsae | pilōsī | pilōsōrum | pilōsārum | pilōsōrum | |
| Dative | pilōsō | pilōsō | pilōsīs | ||||
| Accusative | pilōsum | pilōsam | pilōsum | pilōsōs | pilōsās | pilōsa | |
| Ablative | pilōsō | pilōsā | pilōsō | pilōsīs | |||
| Vocative | pilōse | pilōsa | pilōsum | pilōsī | pilōsae | pilōsa | |
Derived terms
- subpilōsus
Descendants
- Aromanian: piros, pirosu
- Asturian: pelosu
- Catalan: pilós
- English: pilose
- French: pileux
- Friulian: pelôs
- Italian: peloso, piloso
- Portuguese: peloso, piloso
- Romanian: păros
- Sardinian: pilosu, pirosu
- Sicilian: pilusu
- Spanish: peloso, piloso
- Venetian: pelos, peloxo, pełoxo
References
- “pilosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pilosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pilosus 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)
- pilosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette