dolorosus
Latin
Etymology
dolor (“pain; grief”) + -ōsus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /do.loːˈroː.sus/, [d̪ɔɫ̪oːˈroːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /do.loˈro.sus/, [d̪oloˈrɔːs̬us]
Adjective
dolōrōsus (feminine dolōrōsa, neuter dolōrōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- (Late Latin) painful; full of sorrow, sorrowful
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | dolōrōsus | dolōrōsa | dolōrōsum | dolōrōsī | dolōrōsae | dolōrōsa | |
| Genitive | dolōrōsī | dolōrōsae | dolōrōsī | dolōrōsōrum | dolōrōsārum | dolōrōsōrum | |
| Dative | dolōrōsō | dolōrōsō | dolōrōsīs | ||||
| Accusative | dolōrōsum | dolōrōsam | dolōrōsum | dolōrōsōs | dolōrōsās | dolōrōsa | |
| Ablative | dolōrōsō | dolōrōsā | dolōrōsō | dolōrōsīs | |||
| Vocative | dolōrōse | dolōrōsa | dolōrōsum | dolōrōsī | dolōrōsae | dolōrōsa | |
Synonyms
- (sorrowful; painful): aeger, cruciābilis, gravis, trīstis
Antonyms
- (painful): indolōrius
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “dolorosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- dolorosus 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)
- dolorosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.