brumosus
Latin
Etymology
From brūma + -ōsus. Brūma is derived from brevima, brevissima (“shortest”), the superlative of brevis (“brief; short”) (the winter solstice being the shortest day of the year), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“brief, short”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [bruːˈmoː.sʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [bruˈmɔː.s̬us]
Adjective
brūmōsus (feminine brūmōsa, neuter brūmōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- (Late Latin) wintry
- ca. 690, Aldhelm, Epistulae 5, (as quoted in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources):
- ex Hiberniae brumosis circionis insulae climatibus
- from the wintry climate of the Irish northwestern island
- ex Hiberniae brumosis circionis insulae climatibus
- (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) alternative form of brōmōsus; stinking, fetid, foul-smelling
- author lived 344/345–411 CE, Tyrannius Rufinus, De Vitis Patrum 3, (as quoted in the Du Cange dictionary):
- Et cum fœteret brumosa aqua odore, non permittebat, ut aliam aquam mutarent.
- And although the foul water smelled bad, he didn't allow others to change the water.
- Et cum fœteret brumosa aqua odore, non permittebat, ut aliam aquam mutarent.
- 1544, ?, Aesculapius: de morborum ... cura liber experimentarius medicinae, (Strasbourg: published by John Schottum):
- ructant melancholici frequenter calidum, brumosum, fumosum.
- The melancholic [i.e. those with excessive black bile] often belch something hot, foul-smelling, smoky.
- ructant melancholici frequenter calidum, brumosum, fumosum.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | brūmōsus | brūmōsa | brūmōsum | brūmōsī | brūmōsae | brūmōsa | |
| genitive | brūmōsī | brūmōsae | brūmōsī | brūmōsōrum | brūmōsārum | brūmōsōrum | |
| dative | brūmōsō | brūmōsae | brūmōsō | brūmōsīs | |||
| accusative | brūmōsum | brūmōsam | brūmōsum | brūmōsōs | brūmōsās | brūmōsa | |
| ablative | brūmōsō | brūmōsā | brūmōsō | brūmōsīs | |||
| vocative | brūmōse | brūmōsa | brūmōsum | brūmōsī | brūmōsae | brūmōsa | |