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Latin
Etymology
From cēnseō (“give an opinion”) + -tōrius.
Pronunciation
Adjective
cēnsōrius (feminine cēnsōria, neuter cēnsōrium); first/second-declension adjective
- censorial
- rigid, severe
- austere
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “censorius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “censorius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- censorius 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)
- censorius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- Cato of Utica was a direct descendant of Cato the Censor: Cato Uticensis ortus erat a Catone Censorio
- the reprimand of a censor: nota, animadversio censoria