mendosus

Latin

Etymology

From mendum +‎ -ōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /menˈdoː.sus/, [mɛn̪ˈd̪oːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /menˈdo.sus/, [men̪ˈd̪ɔːs̬us]

Adjective

mendōsus (feminine mendōsa, neuter mendōsum, superlative mendōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. full of faults; faulty, erroneous, incorrect
2. false, deceptive

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	mendōsus	mendōsa	mendōsum		mendōsī	mendōsae	mendōsa
genitive	mendōsī	mendōsae	mendōsī		mendōsōrum	mendōsārum	mendōsōrum
dative	mendōsō	mendōsae	mendōsō		mendōsīs
accusative	mendōsum	mendōsam	mendōsum		mendōsōs	mendōsās	mendōsa
ablative	mendōsō	mendōsā	mendōsō		mendōsīs
vocative	mendōse	mendōsa	mendōsum		mendōsī	mendōsae	mendōsa

References

• “mendosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mendosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mendosus 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)
• mendosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • full of orthographical errors: mendose scriptum
    
  • (1) to make frequent mistakes in writing; (2) to be full of mistakes (speaking of a passage): mendosum esse (Verr. 2. 4. 77)