pulverulentus

Latin

Etymology

From pulvis (“dust”) +‎ -ulentus (“full of, abounding in”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pul.u̯e.ruˈlen.tus/, [pʊɫ̪u̯ɛrʊˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pul.ve.ruˈlen.tus/, [pulveruˈlɛn̪t̪us]

Adjective

pulverulentus (feminine pulverulenta, neuter pulverulentum); first/second-declension adjective

1. dusty, pulverulent, full of dust, dust-raising, resembling a cloud of dust
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.153–155:

     [...] aliā dē parte patentīs
     trānsmittunt cursū campōs atque agmina cervī
     pulverulenta fugā glomerant montīsque relinquunt.

     [...] and from another place appear — crossing open ground in their course — stags, gathering dusty herds to flee as they leave the hills.

2. toilsome

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	pulverulentus	pulverulenta	pulverulentum		pulverulentī	pulverulentae	pulverulenta
genitive	pulverulentī	pulverulentae	pulverulentī		pulverulentōrum	pulverulentārum	pulverulentōrum
dative	pulverulentō	pulverulentae	pulverulentō		pulverulentīs
accusative	pulverulentum	pulverulentam	pulverulentum		pulverulentōs	pulverulentās	pulverulenta
ablative	pulverulentō	pulverulentā	pulverulentō		pulverulentīs
vocative	pulverulente	pulverulenta	pulverulentum		pulverulentī	pulverulentae	pulverulenta

Related terms

• pulvis

Descendants

• → French: pulvérulent
• → Italian: polverulento

References

• “pulverulentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pulverulentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pulverulentus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.