cavernosus
Latin
Etymology
From caverna (“cave, cavity”) + -ōsus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ka.u̯erˈnoː.sus/, [käu̯ɛrˈnoːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka.verˈno.sus/, [käverˈnɔːs̬us]
Adjective
cavernōsus (feminine cavernōsa, neuter cavernōsum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | cavernōsus | cavernōsa | cavernōsum | cavernōsī | cavernōsae | cavernōsa | |
| Genitive | cavernōsī | cavernōsae | cavernōsī | cavernōsōrum | cavernōsārum | cavernōsōrum | |
| Dative | cavernōsō | cavernōsō | cavernōsīs | ||||
| Accusative | cavernōsum | cavernōsam | cavernōsum | cavernōsōs | cavernōsās | cavernōsa | |
| Ablative | cavernōsō | cavernōsā | cavernōsō | cavernōsīs | |||
| Vocative | cavernōse | cavernōsa | cavernōsum | cavernōsī | cavernōsae | cavernōsa | |
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “cavernosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cavernosus 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)
- cavernosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.