dolorosus
Latin
Etymology
dolor (“pain; grief”) + -ōsus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [dɔ.ɫoːˈroː.sʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [d̪o.loˈrɔː.s̬us]
Adjective
dolōrōsus (feminine dolōrōsa, neuter dolōrōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- (Late Latin) painful; full of sorrow, sorrowful
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | dolōrōsus | dolōrōsa | dolōrōsum | dolōrōsī | dolōrōsae | dolōrōsa | |
| genitive | dolōrōsī | dolōrōsae | dolōrōsī | dolōrōsōrum | dolōrōsārum | dolōrōsōrum | |
| dative | dolōrōsō | dolōrōsae | dolōrōsō | dolōrōsīs | |||
| accusative | dolōrōsum | dolōrōsam | dolōrōsum | dolōrōsōs | dolōrōsās | dolōrōsa | |
| ablative | dolōrōsō | dolōrōsā | dolōrōsō | dolōrōsīs | |||
| vocative | dolōrōse | dolōrōsa | dolōrōsum | dolōrōsī | dolōrōsae | dolōrōsa | |
Synonyms
- (sorrowful; painful): aeger, cruciābilis, gravis, trīstis
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “painful”): indolōrius
Related terms
Descendants
- Asturian: dolorosu
- Catalan: dolorós
- Dutch: doloreus, douloureus
- English: dolorose, dolorous
- French: douloureux
- Friulian: dolorôs
- Italian: doloroso
- Occitan: dolorós
- Old French: dolerous
- Old Galician-Portuguese: dooroso
- → Portuguese: doloroso
- Romanian: dururos
- Sardinian: dolorosu, dulurosu, dururosu
- Sicilian: dulurusu
- Spanish: doloroso
- Venetan: dołoroxo, doloros
References
- “dolorosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "dolorosus", 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)
- dolorosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.