fastidiosus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin fastidium

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?

Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos?

Old Latin -ōssus

Latin -osus

Latin fastīdiōsus

From fastidium + -osus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fas.tiː.diˈoː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fas.ti.diˈɔː.s̬us]

Adjective

fastīdiōsus (feminine fastīdiōsa, neuter fastīdiōsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. squeamish
2. nauseating
3. disdainful, scornful
4. fastidious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	fastīdiōsus	fastīdiōsa	fastīdiōsum		fastīdiōsī	fastīdiōsae	fastīdiōsa
genitive	fastīdiōsī	fastīdiōsae	fastīdiōsī		fastīdiōsōrum	fastīdiōsārum	fastīdiōsōrum
dative	fastīdiōsō	fastīdiōsae	fastīdiōsō		fastīdiōsīs
accusative	fastīdiōsum	fastīdiōsam	fastīdiōsum		fastīdiōsōs	fastīdiōsās	fastīdiōsa
ablative	fastīdiōsō	fastīdiōsā	fastīdiōsō		fastīdiōsīs
vocative	fastīdiōse	fastīdiōsa	fastīdiōsum		fastīdiōsī	fastīdiōsae	fastīdiōsa

Descendants

• English: → fastidious
• French: → fastidieux (learned)
• Italian: fastidioso
• Portuguese: fastioso, → fastidioso (learned)
• Romanian: fastidios
• Spanish: hastioso, → fastidioso (learned)

References

• “fastidiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fastidiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fastidiosus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.