formosus

Latin

Etymology

From fōrma (“shape, beauty”) +‎ -ōsus (“full of”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /foːrˈmoː.sus/, [foːrˈmoːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /forˈmo.sus/, [forˈmɔːs̬us]

Adjective

fōrmōsus (feminine fōrmōsa, neuter fōrmōsum, comparative fōrmōsior, superlative fōrmōsissimus, adverb fōrmōsē); first/second-declension adjective

1. beautiful, handsome
2. aesthetic, well-formed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	fōrmōsus	fōrmōsa	fōrmōsum		fōrmōsī	fōrmōsae	fōrmōsa
Genitive	fōrmōsī	fōrmōsae	fōrmōsī		fōrmōsōrum	fōrmōsārum	fōrmōsōrum
Dative	fōrmōsō		fōrmōsō		fōrmōsīs
Accusative	fōrmōsum	fōrmōsam	fōrmōsum		fōrmōsōs	fōrmōsās	fōrmōsa
Ablative	fōrmōsō	fōrmōsā	fōrmōsō		fōrmōsīs
Vocative	fōrmōse	fōrmōsa	fōrmōsum		fōrmōsī	fōrmōsae	fōrmōsa

Related terms

• fōrma
• fōrmō
• fōrmōsa
• fōrmōsē
• fōrmōsitās

Descendants

• Borrowed:
  • → Asturian: formosu
  • → English: formous
  • → Italian: formoso
  • → Middle French: formeux
    • French: formeux
  • →? Old Occitan: formos
  • → Portuguese: formoso
  • → Portuguese: Ilha Formosa
    • English: Formosa
• Inherited:
  • Catalan: formós
  • Extremaduran: hermosu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: fermoso, fremoso
    • Galician: fermoso
  • Old Spanish: fermoso
    • Ladino: fermozo, ermozo
    • Spanish: hermoso
      • → Sardinian: elmosu
      • → Gascon: hermous
  • Romanian: frumos
  • Venetian: formoso (medieval)

References

• “formosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “formosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• formosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “formosus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 724