mendosus

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Latin

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Etymology

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From mendum +‎ -ōsus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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mendōsus (feminine mendōsa, neuter mendōsum, superlative mendōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. full of faults; faulty, erroneous, incorrect
  2. false, deceptive

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative mendōsus mendōsa mendōsum mendōsī mendōsae mendōsa
Genitive mendōsī mendōsae mendōsī mendōsōrum mendōsārum mendōsōrum
Dative mendōsō mendōsō mendōsīs
Accusative mendōsum mendōsam mendōsum mendōsōs mendōsās mendōsa
Ablative mendōsō mendōsā mendōsō mendōsīs
Vocative mendōse mendōsa mendōsum mendōsī mendōsae mendōsa

References

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  • mendosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • mendosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • mendosus 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)
  • mendosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • full of orthographical errors: mendose scriptum
    • (1) to make frequent mistakes in writing; (2) to be full of mistakes (speaking of a passage): mendosum esse (Verr. 2. 4. 77)