Latin

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Etymology

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From virus +‎ -osus.

Adjective

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vīrōsus (feminine vīrōsa, neuter vīrōsum); first/second-declension participle

  1. stinking
  2. (Late Latin) poisonous

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative vīrōsus vīrōsa vīrōsum vīrōsī vīrōsae vīrōsa
Genitive vīrōsī vīrōsae vīrōsī vīrōsōrum vīrōsārum vīrōsōrum
Dative vīrōsō vīrōsō vīrōsīs
Accusative vīrōsum vīrōsam vīrōsum vīrōsōs vīrōsās vīrōsa
Ablative vīrōsō vīrōsā vīrōsō vīrōsīs
Vocative vīrōse vīrōsa vīrōsum vīrōsī vīrōsae vīrōsa

Descendants

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  • Italian: viroso

References

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