pulverulentus

From pulvis (“dust”) +‎ -ulentus (“full of, abounding in”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pʊɫ.wɛ.rʊˈɫɛn.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pul.ve.ruˈlɛn̪.t̪us]

pulverulentus (feminine pulverulenta, neuter pulverulentum); first/second-declension adjective

1. dusty, pulverulent, full of dust, dust-raising, resembling a cloud of dust
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.153–155:

     [...] aliā dē parte patentīs
     trānsmittunt cursū campōs atque agmina cervī
     pulverulenta fugā glomerant montīsque relinquunt.

     [...] and from another place appear — crossing open ground in their course — stags, gathering dusty herds to flee as they leave the hills.

2. toilsome

First/second-declension adjective.

• pulvis

• → French: pulvérulent
• → Italian: polverulento

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