sententiosus

Latin

Etymology

From sententia +‎ -ōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sen.ten.tiˈoː.sus/, [s̠ɛn̪t̪ɛn̪t̪iˈoːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sen.ten.t͡siˈo.sus/, [sen̪t̪ent̪͡s̪iˈɔːs̬us]

Adjective

sententiōsus (feminine sententiōsa, neuter sententiōsum, adverb sententiōsē); first/second-declension adjective

1. pithy, sententious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	sententiōsus	sententiōsa	sententiōsum		sententiōsī	sententiōsae	sententiōsa
genitive	sententiōsī	sententiōsae	sententiōsī		sententiōsōrum	sententiōsārum	sententiōsōrum
dative	sententiōsō	sententiōsae	sententiōsō		sententiōsīs
accusative	sententiōsum	sententiōsam	sententiōsum		sententiōsōs	sententiōsās	sententiōsa
ablative	sententiōsō	sententiōsā	sententiōsō		sententiōsīs
vocative	sententiōse	sententiōsa	sententiōsum		sententiōsī	sententiōsae	sententiōsa

Descendants

• → English: sententious
• French: sentencieux
• Italian: sentenzioso
• Portuguese: sentencioso
• Romanian: sentențios
• Spanish: sentencioso

References

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