facinorosus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From facinus, facinoris (“crime, wickedness”) + -ōsus.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fa.ki.noˈroː.sus/, [fäkɪnɔˈroːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fa.t͡ʃi.noˈro.sus/, [fät͡ʃinoˈrɔːs̬us]
Adjective[edit]
facinorōsus (feminine facinorōsa, neuter facinorōsum, comparative facinorōsior, superlative facinorōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- criminal, villainous
- Synonyms: vitiōsus, scelerātus, scelestus, malus
- 1766, Clement XIII, Christianae Reipublicae salus, quoted in 1832 by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos
- […] nunquam enim materia subtrahetur erroris, nisi pravitatis facinorosa elementa in flammis combusta depereant.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- atrocious, vicious
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | facinorōsus | facinorōsa | facinorōsum | facinorōsī | facinorōsae | facinorōsa | |
| Genitive | facinorōsī | facinorōsae | facinorōsī | facinorōsōrum | facinorōsārum | facinorōsōrum | |
| Dative | facinorōsō | facinorōsō | facinorōsīs | ||||
| Accusative | facinorōsum | facinorōsam | facinorōsum | facinorōsōs | facinorōsās | facinorōsa | |
| Ablative | facinorōsō | facinorōsā | facinorōsō | facinorōsīs | |||
| Vocative | facinorōse | facinorōsa | facinorōsum | facinorōsī | facinorōsae | facinorōsa | |
Descendants[edit]
- → English: facinorous
- → Portuguese: facinoroso
References[edit]
- “facinorosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “facinorosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- facinorosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.