famosus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From fāma (“fame”) + -ōsus (adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /faːˈmoː.sus/, [fäːˈmoːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /faˈmo.sus/, [fäˈmɔːs̬us]
Adjective edit
fāmōsus (feminine fāmōsa, neuter fāmōsum, superlative fāmōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- famed, celebrated, noted, renowned, famous
- Synonyms: clārus, praeclārus, inclitus, celeber, memorātus
- infamous, notorious
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | fāmōsus | fāmōsa | fāmōsum | fāmōsī | fāmōsae | fāmōsa | |
| Genitive | fāmōsī | fāmōsae | fāmōsī | fāmōsōrum | fāmōsārum | fāmōsōrum | |
| Dative | fāmōsō | fāmōsō | fāmōsīs | ||||
| Accusative | fāmōsum | fāmōsam | fāmōsum | fāmōsōs | fāmōsās | fāmōsa | |
| Ablative | fāmōsō | fāmōsā | fāmōsō | fāmōsīs | |||
| Vocative | fāmōse | fāmōsa | fāmōsum | fāmōsī | fāmōsae | fāmōsa | |
Descendants edit
- Asturian: famosu
- Catalan: famós
- German: famos
- English: famous
- Extremaduran: famosu
- Friulian: famôs
- Galician: famoso
- Hungarian: famózus
- Ido: famoza
- Interlingua: famose
- Italian: famoso
- Old French: fameus
- Piedmontese: famos
- Portuguese: famoso
- Romanian: faimos
- Sicilian: famusu
- Spanish: famoso
- Venetian: famùso
References edit
- “famosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “famosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- famosus 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)
- famosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.