monstruosus
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From mōnstrum (“portent, monstrosity”) + -ōsus (“full of”, suffix forming an augmentative adjective).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /mon.struˈoː.sus/, [mõːs̠t̪ruˈoːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /mon.struˈo.sus/, [monst̪ruˈɔːs̬us]
Adjective edit
mōnstruōsus (feminine mōnstruōsa, neuter mōnstruōsum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mōnstruōsus | mōnstruōsa | mōnstruōsum | mōnstruōsī | mōnstruōsae | mōnstruōsa | |
| Genitive | mōnstruōsī | mōnstruōsae | mōnstruōsī | mōnstruōsōrum | mōnstruōsārum | mōnstruōsōrum | |
| Dative | mōnstruōsō | mōnstruōsō | mōnstruōsīs | ||||
| Accusative | mōnstruōsum | mōnstruōsam | mōnstruōsum | mōnstruōsōs | mōnstruōsās | mōnstruōsa | |
| Ablative | mōnstruōsō | mōnstruōsā | mōnstruōsō | mōnstruōsīs | |||
| Vocative | mōnstruōse | mōnstruōsa | mōnstruōsum | mōnstruōsī | mōnstruōsae | mōnstruōsa | |
Descendants edit
- Asturian: monstruosu
- English: monstrous
- French: monstrueux
- Galician: monstruoso
- Italian: mostruoso
- Portuguese: monstruoso
- Romanian: monstruos
- Spanish: monstruoso
References edit
- “monstruosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “monstruosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- monstruosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.