viduus

Latin

Etymology

See vidua.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwɪ.du.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈviː.du.us]

Adjective

viduus (feminine vidua, neuter viduum); first/second-declension adjective

1. destitute, deprived

   Synonyms: vacuus, carēns, expers

   Antonyms: abundāns, cōpiōsus, cumulātus, largus, ūber, fēcundus

2. widowed, bereaved

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	viduus	vidua	viduum		viduī	viduae	vidua
genitive	viduī	viduae	viduī		viduōrum	viduārum	viduōrum
dative	viduō	viduae	viduō		viduīs
accusative	viduum	viduam	viduum		viduōs	viduās	vidua
ablative	viduō	viduā	viduō		viduīs
vocative	vidue	vidua	viduum		viduī	viduae	vidua

Related terms

• vidua
• viduitās
• viduō

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: veduu
  • Romanian: văduv
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: vèduvu
  • Italian: vedovo
  • Neapolitan: virulo, verula
  • Sicilian: vìduu, vìduvu, vìruvu
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: vàdduv, vedav, vedov
  • Friulian: vedul
  • Ligurian: vìdoo, vîdoo, vîdo, vùdio
  • Lombard: vedov

    Alpine: vedo

    Ossolano: vèif, vèu, vòil

  • Piedmontese: vido, vidvo, vèf, véu, vèul
  • Romagnol: vedve
  • Romansh: vaiv, vieu
  • Venetan: védoo
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: vevo
  • French: veuf
  • Lorrain: vov
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Occitan: veuse (most dialects except Limousin and Auvergnat)

    Auvergnat: vuefe, viuve

    Gascon: veude, vedo, veudo, vieudo, veud, vede, vevde, veuso, veus

    Languedocien: viuse, viuve, veus

    Limousin: veuve, vzove

    Provençal: veus

    Vivaro-Alpine: veus, viuse, vieuse, veuso, veve

  • Old Catalan: viduu, vido, viso
    • Catalan: viudo (influenced by feminine viuda)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Fala: viyú
  • Galician: viúvo
  • Portuguese: viúvo
  • Spanish: viudo
    • → Cebuano: biyudo
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: biudu, fiudu

Noun

viduus m (genitive viduī, feminine vidua); second declension

1. widower

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	viduus	viduī
genitive	viduī	viduōrum
dative	viduō	viduīs
accusative	viduum	viduōs
ablative	viduō	viduīs
vocative	vidue	viduī

Further reading

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