numerose
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin numerōsus (“numerous, abundant; harmonious”), from numerus (“number”). Doublet of numerous.
AdjectiveEdit
numerose (comparative more numerose, superlative most numerose)
- Obsolete form of numerous.
- 1683, Walter Charleton, Three Anatomic Lectures (page 92)
- […] For, Mechanic Examples of this kind are every where so obvious to sense, and so numerose, that only to enumerate them would be a task hard and tediose.
- 1683, Walter Charleton, Three Anatomic Lectures (page 92)
InterlinguaEdit
AdjectiveEdit
numerose (comparative plus numerose, superlative le plus numerose)
ItalianEdit
AdjectiveEdit
numerose f
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
AdverbEdit
numerōsē (comparative numerōsius, superlative numerōsissimē)
SynonymsEdit
- (rhythmically): numerōsiter
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “numerose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “numerose”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- numerose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have a rhythmical cadence: numerose cadere
- his style has a well-balanced cadence: oratio numerose cadit
- to have a rhythmical cadence: numerose cadere