querulus

Latin

Etymology

From queror (“to complain”) +‎ -ulus (“-ing”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷɛ.rʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷɛː.ru.lus]

Adjective

querulus (feminine querula, neuter querulum, adverb querulē); first/second-declension adjective

1. (chiefly poetic) complaining, querulous
   • c. 19 BCE, Horace, Ars Poetica 170–174:

     Quaerit et inventis miser abstinet ac timet uti,
     Vel quod res omnes timide gelideque ministrat,
     Dilator, spe longus, iners, avidusque futuri,
     Difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti
     Se puero, castigator censorque minorum.

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   • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovidius, Sorrows III.8.29–32:

     quique per autumnum percussis frigore primo
     est color in foliis, quae noua laesit hiems,
     is mea membra tenet, nec uiribus alleuor ullis,
     et numquam queruli causa doloris abest.

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   • 61 CE – c. 112 CE, Plinius Minor, Epistulae IX.15 C. PLINIUS FALCONI SUO S.:

     Refugeram in Tuscos, ut omnia ad arbitrium meum facerem. At hoc ne in Tuscis quidem: tam multis undique rusticorum libellis et tam querulis inquietor, quos aliquanto magis invitus quam meos lego; nam et meos invitus.

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2. (of animals and things) uttering a soft, plaintive sound, murmuring, whimpering, cooing, chirping, etc.
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Vergilius, Georgics III.327–330:

     inde ubi quarta sitim caeli collegerit hora
     et cantu querulae rumpent arbusta cicadae,
     ad puteos aut alta greges ad stagna iubebo<br<currentem ilignis potare canalibus undam; […]

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   • c. 2 CE, Ovidius, Cosmetics for the Female Face 77–78:

     […] Addita de querulo volucrum medicamina nido
     Ore fugant maculas (alcyonea vocant); […]

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   • 4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica X.11–12:

     Nam neque sicca placet, nec quae stagnata palude
     perpetitur querulae semper convicia ranae.

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Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	querulus	querula	querulum		querulī	querulae	querula
genitive	querulī	querulae	querulī		querulōrum	querulārum	querulōrum
dative	querulō	querulae	querulō		querulīs
accusative	querulum	querulam	querulum		querulōs	querulās	querula
ablative	querulō	querulā	querulō		querulīs
vocative	querule	querula	querulum		querulī	querulae	querula

Derived terms

• querulē
• querulōsus

Descendants

• → Italian: querulo
• → Portuguese: quérulo

Further reading

• “quĕrŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quĕrŭlus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.