famosus
Latin
Etymology
From fāma (“fame”) + -ōsus (adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /faːˈmoː.sus/, [fäːˈmoːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /faˈmo.sus/, [fäˈmɔːs̬us]
Adjective
fāmōsus (feminine fāmōsa, neuter fāmōsum, superlative fāmōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | fāmōsus | fāmōsa | fāmōsum | fāmōsī | fāmōsae | fāmōsa | |
Genitive | fāmōsī | fāmōsae | fāmōsī | fāmōsōrum | fāmōsārum | fāmōsōrum | |
Dative | fāmōsō | fāmōsō | fāmōsīs | ||||
Accusative | fāmōsum | fāmōsam | fāmōsum | fāmōsōs | fāmōsās | fāmōsa | |
Ablative | fāmōsō | fāmōsā | fāmōsō | fāmōsīs | |||
Vocative | fāmōse | fāmōsa | fāmōsum | fāmōsī | fāmōsae | fāmōsa |
Descendants
References
- “famosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “famosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- famosus 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)
- famosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.