caliginosus
Latin
Alternative forms
- cālīgōsus
Etymology
From cālīgō (“fog; darkness”) + -ōsus
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kaː.liː.ɡiˈnoː.sus/, [kaː.liː.ɡɪˈnoː.sʊs]
Adjective
cālīginōsus (feminine cālīginōsa, neuter cālīginōsum); first/second declension
- full of mist, covered with mist, misty, foggy; cloudy
- (by extension) dark, obscure, gloomy
- (figuratively) uncertain, dark, obscure
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | cālīginōsus | cālīginōsa | cālīginōsum | cālīginōsī | cālīginōsae | cālīginōsa | |
| Genitive | cālīginōsī | cālīginōsae | cālīginōsī | cālīginōsōrum | cālīginōsārum | cālīginōsōrum | |
| Dative | cālīginōsō | cālīginōsō | cālīginōsīs | ||||
| Accusative | cālīginōsum | cālīginōsam | cālīginōsum | cālīginōsōs | cālīginōsās | cālīginōsa | |
| Ablative | cālīginōsō | cālīginōsā | cālīginōsō | cālīginōsīs | |||
| Vocative | cālīginōse | cālīginōsa | cālīginōsum | cālīginōsī | cālīginōsae | cālīginōsa | |
Synonyms
- (cloudy): nūbilōsus, nūbilus
- (dark, obscure): caecus, cnephōsus, nebulōsus, obscūrus, tenebricōsus
- (misty, foggy): nebulōsus
Related terms
- cālīgātiō
- cālīgineus
- cālīgō
Descendants
- Catalan: caliginós
- English: caliginous
- French: caligineux
- Italian: caliginoso
- Portuguese: caliginoso
- Spanish: caliginoso
References
- caliginosus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- caliginosus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caliginosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette