luctuosus

Latin

Etymology

From lūctus (“mourning, lamentation”) +‎ -ōsus.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫuːk.tuˈoː.sʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [luk.t̪uˈɔː.s̬us]

Adjective

lūctuōsus (feminine lūctuōsa, neuter lūctuōsum, comparative lūctuōsior, superlative lūctuōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

sorrowful, sad
lamentable, doleful, mournful

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular				plural
nominative	lūctuōsus	lūctuōsa	lūctuōsum		lūctuōsī	lūctuōsae	lūctuōsa
genitive	lūctuōsī	lūctuōsae	lūctuōsī		lūctuōsōrum	lūctuōsārum	lūctuōsōrum
dative	lūctuōsō	lūctuōsae	lūctuōsō		lūctuōsīs
accusative	lūctuōsum	lūctuōsam	lūctuōsum		lūctuōsōs	lūctuōsās	lūctuōsa
ablative	lūctuōsō	lūctuōsā	lūctuōsō		lūctuōsīs
vocative	lūctuōse	lūctuōsa	lūctuōsum		lūctuōsī	lūctuōsae	lūctuōsa

Descendants

Galician: loitosa; luctuoso (borrowing)
Romanian: luctuos (borrowing)

References

“luctuosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“luctuosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
luctuosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.