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Latin
Etymology
From mendum + -ōsus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
mendōsus (feminine mendōsa, neuter mendōsum, superlative mendōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- full of faults; faulty, erroneous, incorrect
- false, deceptive
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “mendosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mendosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mendosus 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)
- mendosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- full of orthographical errors: mendose scriptum
- (1) to make frequent mistakes in writing; (2) to be full of mistakes (speaking of a passage): mendosum esse (Verr. 2. 4. 77)