periculosus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin perīculum

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?

Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos?

Old Latin -ōssus

Latin -ōsus

Latin perīculōsus

From perīculum (“an attempt, risk”) + -ōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɛ.riː.kʊˈɫoː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pe.ri.kuˈlɔː.s̬us]

Adjective

perīculōsus (feminine perīculōsa, neuter perīculōsum, superlative perīculōsissimus, adverb perīculōsē); first/second-declension adjective

1. dangerous, hazardous, perilous

   Synonyms: anceps, īnfēnsus, dubius, capitālis

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, De brevitate vitae 15:

     Horum te mori nemo coget, omnes docebunt; horum nemo annos tuos conteret, suos tibi contribuet; nullius ex his sermo periculosus erit, nullius amicitia capitalis, nullius sumptuosa obseruatio.

     No one of these will force you to die, but all will teach you how to die; no one of these will wear out your years, but each will add his own years to yours; conversations with no one of these will bring you peril, the friendship of none will endanger your life, the courting of none will tax your purse.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	perīculōsus	perīculōsa	perīculōsum		perīculōsī	perīculōsae	perīculōsa
genitive	perīculōsī	perīculōsae	perīculōsī		perīculōsōrum	perīculōsārum	perīculōsōrum
dative	perīculōsō	perīculōsae	perīculōsō		perīculōsīs
accusative	perīculōsum	perīculōsam	perīculōsum		perīculōsōs	perīculōsās	perīculōsa
ablative	perīculōsō	perīculōsā	perīculōsō		perīculōsīs
vocative	perīculōse	perīculōsa	perīculōsum		perīculōsī	perīculōsae	perīculōsa

Related terms

• perīculōsē
• perīculum

Descendants

Descendants

• Asturian: peligrosu
• Catalan: perillós
• Emilian: priglåuṡ
• Italian: pericoloso
• English: periculous
• Galician: perigoso
• Old French: perilleus
  • English: perilous
  • French: périlleux
• Friulian: periculôs
• Occitan: perilhós
• Portuguese: perigoso, periculoso
• Romanian: periculos
• Romansh: privlus, prigulus, prievlus
• Sardinian: periculosu, perigulosu, pirigulosu
• Sicilian: piriculusu, priculusu
• Spanish: peligroso
• Venetan: pericołoxo, pericołoso, pericoloso
• → Proto-Brythonic: *periglʉs
  • Cornish: peryllus
  • Middle Welsh: peryglus
    • Welsh: peryglus

References

• “periculosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “periculosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "periculosus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “periculosus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• periculosus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016