desidiosus

Latin

Etymology

From dēsidia (“idleness, indolence, sloth”) +‎ -ōsus, from dēsideō (“I sit idle”), from dē (“completely, thoroughly”) + sedeō (“I sit”); compare desidiose.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deː.si.diˈoː.sus/, [d̪eːs̠ɪd̪iˈoːs̠ʊs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /de.si.diˈo.sus/, [d̪es̬id̪iˈɔːs̬us]

Adjective

dēsidiōsus (feminine dēsidiōsa, neuter dēsidiōsum, comparative dēsidiōsior, superlative dēsidiōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

slothful, indolent, lazy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective
	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	dēsidiōsus	dēsidiōsa	dēsidiōsum	dēsidiōsī	dēsidiōsae	dēsidiōsa
genitive	dēsidiōsī	dēsidiōsae	dēsidiōsī	dēsidiōsōrum	dēsidiōsārum	dēsidiōsōrum
dative	dēsidiōsō	dēsidiōsae	dēsidiōsō	dēsidiōsīs
accusative	dēsidiōsum	dēsidiōsam	dēsidiōsum	dēsidiōsōs	dēsidiōsās	dēsidiōsa
ablative	dēsidiōsō	dēsidiōsā	dēsidiōsō	dēsidiōsīs
vocative	dēsidiōse	dēsidiōsa	dēsidiōsum	dēsidiōsī	dēsidiōsae	dēsidiōsa

Descendants

English: desidious

References

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