famosus

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Latin

Etymology

From fāma (“fame”) +‎ -ōsus (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

Adjective

fāmōsus (feminine fāmōsa, neuter fāmōsum, superlative fāmōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. famed, celebrated, noted, renowned, famous
    Synonyms: clārus, praeclārus, inclitus, celeber, memorātus
  2. infamous, notorious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative fāmōsus fāmōsa fāmōsum fāmōsī fāmōsae fāmōsa
Genitive fāmōsī fāmōsae fāmōsī fāmōsōrum fāmōsārum fāmōsōrum
Dative fāmōsō fāmōsō fāmōsīs
Accusative fāmōsum fāmōsam fāmōsum fāmōsōs fāmōsās fāmōsa
Ablative fāmōsō fāmōsā fāmōsō fāmōsīs
Vocative fāmōse fāmōsa fāmōsum fāmōsī fāmōsae fāmōsa

Descendants

References

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