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Latin
Etymology
From odium + -osus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
odiōsus (feminine odiōsa, neuter odiōsum, comparative odiōsior); first/second-declension adjective
- hateful, odious, vexatious, offensive, unpleasant, disagreeable, annoying, troublesome
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “odiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “odiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- odiosus 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)
- odiosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “odiosus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 7: N–Pas, page 324