obliviosus

Latin

Etymology

Formed from oblīvium (“forgetfulness, oblivion”) +‎ -ōsus (“full of, overly, prone to”), from oblīvīscor (“to forget”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ob.liː.u̯iˈoː.sus/, [ɔblʲiːu̯iˈoːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ob.li.viˈo.sus/, [obliviˈɔːs̬us]

Adjective

oblīviōsus (feminine oblīviōsa, neuter oblīviōsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. forgetful, oblivious
2. wreaking forgetfulness, furthering the loss of conscience
   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes II.7.21–23:

     Oblivioso levia Massico
     ciboria exple, funde capacibus
     unguenta de conchis!

     Fill the light goblets with wine from the Massicus that wreaks forgetfulness, slop salves from big shells!

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	oblīviōsus	oblīviōsa	oblīviōsum		oblīviōsī	oblīviōsae	oblīviōsa
Genitive	oblīviōsī	oblīviōsae	oblīviōsī		oblīviōsōrum	oblīviōsārum	oblīviōsōrum
Dative	oblīviōsō		oblīviōsō		oblīviōsīs
Accusative	oblīviōsum	oblīviōsam	oblīviōsum		oblīviōsōs	oblīviōsās	oblīviōsa
Ablative	oblīviōsō	oblīviōsā	oblīviōsō		oblīviōsīs
Vocative	oblīviōse	oblīviōsa	oblīviōsum		oblīviōsī	oblīviōsae	oblīviōsa

Descendants

• → English: oblivious
• → Italian: oblivioso

References

• “obliviosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “obliviosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obliviosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to have a good memory: memorem esse (opp. obliviosum esse)