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Latin
Etymology
From verbum + -osus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
verbōsus (feminine verbōsa, neuter verbōsum, comparative verbōsior); first/second-declension adjective
- wordy, verbose, prolix
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “verbosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “verbosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- verbosus 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)
- verbosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.