operosus

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Latin

Pronunciation

Adjective

operōsus (feminine operōsa, neuter operōsum, comparative operōsior); first/second-declension adjective

  1. painstaking
  2. active, busy, industrious
  3. laborious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative operōsus operōsa operōsum operōsī operōsae operōsa
genitive operōsī operōsae operōsī operōsōrum operōsārum operōsōrum
dative operōsō operōsae operōsō operōsīs
accusative operōsum operōsam operōsum operōsōs operōsās operōsa
ablative operōsō operōsā operōsō operōsīs
vocative operōse operōsa operōsum operōsī operōsae operōsa

Descendants

  • English: operous, operose
  • Italian: operoso
  • Piedmontese: operos

References

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