caliginosus
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cālīgō (“fog; darkness”) + -ōsus.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kaː.liː.ɡiˈnoː.sus/, [käːlʲiːɡɪˈnoːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka.li.d͡ʒiˈno.sus/, [kälid͡ʒiˈnɔːs̬us]
Adjective
[edit]cālīginōsus (feminine cālīginōsa, neuter cālīginōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- full of mist, covered with mist, misty, foggy; cloudy
- (by extension) dark, obscure, gloomy
- (figuratively) uncertain, dark, obscure
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | cālīginōsus | cālīginōsa | cālīginōsum | cālīginōsī | cālīginōsae | cālīginōsa | |
| genitive | cālīginōsī | cālīginōsae | cālīginōsī | cālīginōsōrum | cālīginōsārum | cālīginōsōrum | |
| dative | cālīginōsō | cālīginōsae | cālīginōsō | cālīginōsīs | |||
| accusative | cālīginōsum | cālīginōsam | cālīginōsum | cālīginōsōs | cālīginōsās | cālīginōsa | |
| ablative | cālīginōsō | cālīginōsā | cālīginōsō | cālīginōsīs | |||
| vocative | cālīginōse | cālīginōsa | cālīginōsum | cālīginōsī | cālīginōsae | cālīginōsa | |
Synonyms
[edit]- (cloudy): nūbilōsus, nūbilus
- (dark, obscure): caecus, cnephōsus, nebulōsus, obscūrus, tenebricōsus
- (misty, foggy): nebulōsus
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: caliginós
- English: caliginous
- French: caligineux
- Italian: caliginoso
- Portuguese: caliginoso
- Spanish: caliginoso
References
[edit]- “caliginosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “caliginosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- caliginosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.