meticuleus
Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin meticulōsus (“full of fear, timid, fearful, terrible, frightful”), from metus (“fear”) and -culōsus, extracted from perīculōsus (“perilous”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]meticuleus (comparative meticuleuzer, superlative meest meticuleus or meticuleust)
Declension
[edit]| Declension of meticuleus | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | meticuleus | |||
| inflected | meticuleuze | |||
| comparative | meticuleuzer | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | meticuleus | meticuleuzer | het meticuleust het meticuleuste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | meticuleuze | meticuleuzere | meticuleuste |
| n. sing. | meticuleus | meticuleuzer | meticuleuste | |
| plural | meticuleuze | meticuleuzere | meticuleuste | |
| definite | meticuleuze | meticuleuzere | meticuleuste | |
| partitive | meticuleus | meticuleuzers | — | |