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Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
ōsor m (genitive ōsōris); third declension
- hater, one who hates
c. 209 BCE,
Plautus,
Asinaria 5.2.858–859:
- At nunc dehinc scītō illum ante omnēs minimī mortālem pretī, / madidum, nihilī, incontinentem atque ōsōrem uxōris suae.
- But now henceforth know that he, before all, is a mortal of the least worth, / drunken, of no value, incontinent and a hater of his wife.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “osor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- osor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.