pretiosus
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /pre.tiˈoː.sus/, [prɛt̪iˈoːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /pret.t͡siˈo.sus/, [pret̪ː͡s̪iˈɔːs̬us]
Adjective
pretiōsus (feminine pretiōsa, neuter pretiōsum, comparative pretiōsior, superlative pretiōsissimus, adverb pretiōsē); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | pretiōsus | pretiōsa | pretiōsum | pretiōsī | pretiōsae | pretiōsa | |
| Genitive | pretiōsī | pretiōsae | pretiōsī | pretiōsōrum | pretiōsārum | pretiōsōrum | |
| Dative | pretiōsō | pretiōsō | pretiōsīs | ||||
| Accusative | pretiōsum | pretiōsam | pretiōsum | pretiōsōs | pretiōsās | pretiōsa | |
| Ablative | pretiōsō | pretiōsā | pretiōsō | pretiōsīs | |||
| Vocative | pretiōse | pretiōsa | pretiōsum | pretiōsī | pretiōsae | pretiōsa | |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “prĕtĭōsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pretiōsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- prĕtĭōsus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,236/1.
- “pretiōsus” on page 1,454/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)