limosus

Latin

Etymology

From līmus (“mud, slime”) +‎ -ōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /liːˈmoː.sus/, [lʲiːˈmoːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /liˈmo.sus/, [liˈmɔːs̬us]

Adjective

līmōsus (feminine līmōsa, neuter līmōsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. miry, muddy, marshy, slimy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	līmōsus	līmōsa	līmōsum		līmōsī	līmōsae	līmōsa
Genitive	līmōsī	līmōsae	līmōsī		līmōsōrum	līmōsārum	līmōsōrum
Dative	līmōsō		līmōsō		līmōsīs
Accusative	līmōsum	līmōsam	līmōsum		līmōsōs	līmōsās	līmōsa
Ablative	līmōsō	līmōsā	līmōsō		līmōsīs
Vocative	līmōse	līmōsa	līmōsum		līmōsī	līmōsae	līmōsa

Related terms

• līmus

Descendants

• Italian: limoso
• Portuguese: limoso
• Romanian: imos
• Spanish: limoso

References

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