nervosus
Latin
Etymology
From nervus (“sinew, energy”) + -ōsus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [nɛrˈwoː.sʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [nerˈvɔː.s̬us]
Adjective
nervōsus (feminine nervōsa, neuter nervōsum, comparative nervōsior); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | nervōsus | nervōsa | nervōsum | nervōsī | nervōsae | nervōsa | |
| genitive | nervōsī | nervōsae | nervōsī | nervōsōrum | nervōsārum | nervōsōrum | |
| dative | nervōsō | nervōsae | nervōsō | nervōsīs | |||
| accusative | nervōsum | nervōsam | nervōsum | nervōsōs | nervōsās | nervōsa | |
| ablative | nervōsō | nervōsā | nervōsō | nervōsīs | |||
| vocative | nervōse | nervōsa | nervōsum | nervōsī | nervōsae | nervōsa | |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Italian: nervoso
- Sicilian: nirbusu
- → Middle English: nervous
- English: nervous
- → Middle French: nerveux
- → Galician: nervioso
- → Portuguese: nervoso
- → Romanian: nervos
- → Spanish: nervioso, nervoso
- → Welsh: nerfus
References
- “nervosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nervosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nervosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.