virulentus

Latin

Etymology

From vīrus (“slime, poisonous liquid”) +‎ -ulentus (“full of, abounding in”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯iː.ruˈlen.tus/, [u̯iːrʊˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vi.ruˈlen.tus/, [viruˈlɛn̪t̪us]

Adjective

vīrulentus (feminine vīrulenta, neuter vīrulentum, superlative vīrulentissimus, adverb vīrulentē); first/second-declension adjective

1. poisonous

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vīrulentus	vīrulenta	vīrulentum		vīrulentī	vīrulentae	vīrulenta
genitive	vīrulentī	vīrulentae	vīrulentī		vīrulentōrum	vīrulentārum	vīrulentōrum
dative	vīrulentō	vīrulentae	vīrulentō		vīrulentīs
accusative	vīrulentum	vīrulentam	vīrulentum		vīrulentōs	vīrulentās	vīrulenta
ablative	vīrulentō	vīrulentā	vīrulentō		vīrulentīs
vocative	vīrulente	vīrulenta	vīrulentum		vīrulentī	vīrulentae	vīrulenta

Related terms

• vīrulentia
• vīrus

Descendants

• Catalan: virulent
• English: virulent
• French: virulent
• Galician: virulento
• Italian: virulento
• Portuguese: virulento
• Spanish: virulento

References

• “virulentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• virulentus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.