viscosus
Latin
Etymology
From viscum (“mistletoe, birdlime”) + -ōsus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯isˈkoː.sus/, [u̯ɪs̠ˈkoːs̠ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /visˈko.sus/, [visˈkɔːs̬us]
Adjective
viscōsus (feminine viscōsa, neuter viscōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- (Late Latin) full of birdlime, viscous, sticky
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | viscōsus | viscōsa | viscōsum | viscōsī | viscōsae | viscōsa | |
| Genitive | viscōsī | viscōsae | viscōsī | viscōsōrum | viscōsārum | viscōsōrum | |
| Dative | viscōsō | viscōsō | viscōsīs | ||||
| Accusative | viscōsum | viscōsam | viscōsum | viscōsōs | viscōsās | viscōsa | |
| Ablative | viscōsō | viscōsā | viscōsō | viscōsīs | |||
| Vocative | viscōse | viscōsa | viscōsum | viscōsī | viscōsae | viscōsa | |
Descendants
- → Catalan: viscós
- → English: viscous
- → French: visqueux
- Friulian: viscôs
- → Galician: viscoso
- Italian: viscoso
- → Occitan: viscós
- → Portuguese: viscoso
- Romanian: vâscos
- Sicilian: viscusu
- → Spanish: viscoso
References
- “viscosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- viscosus 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)
- viscosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- L&S