rosus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of rōdō (“gnaw, eat away”).
Participle
rōsus (feminine rōsa, neuter rōsum); first/second-declension participle
- gnawed, eaten away, having been gnawed.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | rōsus | rōsa | rōsum | rōsī | rōsae | rōsa | |
| Genitive | rōsī | rōsae | rōsī | rōsōrum | rōsārum | rōsōrum | |
| Dative | rōsō | rōsō | rōsīs | ||||
| Accusative | rōsum | rōsam | rōsum | rōsōs | rōsās | rōsa | |
| Ablative | rōsō | rōsā | rōsō | rōsīs | |||
| Vocative | rōse | rōsa | rōsum | rōsī | rōsae | rōsa | |
Derived terms
- dērōsus
Descendants
- Aromanian: aros
- Italian: roso
- Romanian: ros
- Spanish: roso
References
- “rosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “rosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- rosus 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)
- rosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette