speciosus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From speciēs (“appearance”) + -osus (“-ose, -ous, forming adjectives”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /spe.kiˈoː.sus/, [s̠pɛkiˈoːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /spe.t͡ʃiˈo.sus/, [spet͡ʃiˈɔːs̬us]
Adjective edit
speciōsus (feminine speciōsa, neuter speciōsum, comparative speciōsior, superlative speciōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | speciōsus | speciōsa | speciōsum | speciōsī | speciōsae | speciōsa | |
| Genitive | speciōsī | speciōsae | speciōsī | speciōsōrum | speciōsārum | speciōsōrum | |
| Dative | speciōsō | speciōsō | speciōsīs | ||||
| Accusative | speciōsum | speciōsam | speciōsum | speciōsōs | speciōsās | speciōsa | |
| Ablative | speciōsō | speciōsā | speciōsō | speciōsīs | |||
| Vocative | speciōse | speciōsa | speciōsum | speciōsī | speciōsae | speciōsa | |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: specious
- French: spécieux
- Italian: specioso, spezioso
- Portuguese: especioso
- Romanian: specios
- Spanish: especioso
See also edit
References edit
- “speciosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “speciosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- speciosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.