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Latin
Etymology
From alsius (“chilly, cold, cool”) + -ōsus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
alsiōsus (feminine alsiōsa, neuter alsiōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- easily freezing, susceptible to cold
116 BCE – 27 BCE,
Marcus Terentius Varro,
Agricultural Topics 2.3.6:
- Stabulatur pecus melius, ad hibernos exortos si spectat, quod est alsiosum.
- It is better to have the goat stalls face the sunrise in winter, as the animals feel the cold acutely.
Inflection
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “alsiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- alsiosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.