viscosus

Latin

Etymology

From viscum (“mistletoe, birdlime”) +‎ -ōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯isˈkoː.sus/, [u̯ɪs̠ˈkoːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /visˈko.sus/, [visˈkɔːs̬us]

Adjective

viscōsus (feminine viscōsa, neuter viscōsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Late Latin) full of birdlime, viscous, sticky

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	viscōsus	viscōsa	viscōsum		viscōsī	viscōsae	viscōsa
Genitive	viscōsī	viscōsae	viscōsī		viscōsōrum	viscōsārum	viscōsōrum
Dative	viscōsō		viscōsō		viscōsīs
Accusative	viscōsum	viscōsam	viscōsum		viscōsōs	viscōsās	viscōsa
Ablative	viscōsō	viscōsā	viscōsō		viscōsīs
Vocative	viscōse	viscōsa	viscōsum		viscōsī	viscōsae	viscōsa

Descendants

• → Catalan: viscós
• → English: viscous
• → French: visqueux
• Friulian: viscôs
• → Galician: viscoso
• Italian: viscoso
• → Occitan: viscós
• → Portuguese: viscoso
• Romanian: vâscos
• Sicilian: viscusu
• → Spanish: viscoso

References

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