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Latin
Etymology
Perfect active participle of ōdī (“to hate; dislike”), likewise used in the present active meaning in earlier Latin.
Participle
ōsus (feminine ōsa, neuter ōsum); first/second-declension participle
- (Old Latin, active voice) hating, loathing, detesting, abhorring
1839 , Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 201, line 18:Ōsī sunt, ab odiō dēclīnāsse antīquōs testis est C. Gracchus in eā, quae est dē lēge Minuciā, cum ait: 'Mīrum sī quid hīs iniūriae fit; semper eōs ōsī sunt.' Quod nunc quoque cum praepositiōne ēlātum frequēns est, quandō dīcimus semper perōsī.- That the old authors formed ōsī sunt from odium is witnessed by Gaius Gracchus in his Minucian law speech, when he says: 'It would be remarkable if any injury happens to these people; they've always hated those people.' This word is frequent even now when intensified by a prefix, since we always say perōsī.
- (Late Latin, passive voice, rare, learned) alternative form of perōsus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
References
- “osus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “osus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- osus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.