Latin edit

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

operōsus (feminine operōsa, neuter operōsum, comparative operōsior); first/second-declension adjective

  1. painstaking
  2. active, busy, industrious
  3. laborious

Declension edit

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative operōsus operōsa operōsum operōsī operōsae operōsa
Genitive operōsī operōsae operōsī operōsōrum operōsārum operōsōrum
Dative operōsō operōsō operōsīs
Accusative operōsum operōsam operōsum operōsōs operōsās operōsa
Ablative operōsō operōsā operōsō operōsīs
Vocative operōse operōsa operōsum operōsī operōsae operōsa

Descendants edit

  • English: operous, operose
  • Italian: operoso
  • Piedmontese: operos

References edit

  • operosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • operosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • operosus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • operosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.