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Latin
Etymology
From violō (“to violate, disturb”) + -entus (“full of, abounding in”).[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
violentus (feminine violenta, neuter violentum, superlative violentissimus, adverb violenter); first/second-declension adjective
- forcible, violent, vehement
- tempestās violenta ― a violent storm
- impetuous; boisterous
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “violentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “violentus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- violentus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 680