meticulosus
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From metus (“fear”) + -culōsus, extracted from perīculōsus (“perilous”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /me.ti.kuˈloː.sus/, [mɛt̪ɪkʊˈɫ̪oːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /me.ti.kuˈlo.sus/, [met̪ikuˈlɔːs̬us]
Adjective
[edit]meticulōsus (feminine meticulōsa, neuter meticulōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- full of fear, fearful, timid
- Nullus est hoc meticulosus aeque.
- No one is as careful as him.
- frightful, terrible
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | meticulōsus | meticulōsa | meticulōsum | meticulōsī | meticulōsae | meticulōsa | |
| genitive | meticulōsī | meticulōsae | meticulōsī | meticulōsōrum | meticulōsārum | meticulōsōrum | |
| dative | meticulōsō | meticulōsae | meticulōsō | meticulōsīs | |||
| accusative | meticulōsum | meticulōsam | meticulōsum | meticulōsōs | meticulōsās | meticulōsa | |
| ablative | meticulōsō | meticulōsā | meticulōsō | meticulōsīs | |||
| vocative | meticulōse | meticulōsa | meticulōsum | meticulōsī | meticulōsae | meticulōsa | |
Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: meticulós
- → English: meticulous
- → French: méticuleux
- → Galician: meticuloso
- → Italian: meticoloso
- → Portuguese: meticuloso
- → Romanian: meticulos
- → Sicilian: miticulusu
- → Spanish: meticuloso
References
[edit]- “meticulosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- meticulosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.