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

1. slothful, indolent, lazy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	dēsidiōsus	dēsidiōsa	dēsidiōsum		dēsidiōsī	dēsidiōsae	dēsidiōsa
Genitive	dēsidiōsī	dēsidiōsae	dēsidiōsī		dēsidiōsōrum	dēsidiōsārum	dēsidiōsōrum
Dative	dēsidiōsō		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.