speciosus
Latin
Etymology
From speciēs (“appearance”) + -osus (“-ose, -ous, forming adjectives”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [spɛ.kiˈoː.sʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [spe.t͡ʃiˈɔː.s̬us]
Adjective
speciōsus (feminine speciōsa, neuter speciōsum, comparative speciōsior, superlative speciōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | speciōsus | speciōsa | speciōsum | speciōsī | speciōsae | speciōsa | |
| genitive | speciōsī | speciōsae | speciōsī | speciōsōrum | speciōsārum | speciōsōrum | |
| dative | speciōsō | speciōsae | speciōsō | speciōsīs | |||
| accusative | speciōsum | speciōsam | speciōsum | speciōsōs | speciōsās | speciōsa | |
| ablative | speciōsō | speciōsā | speciōsō | speciōsīs | |||
| vocative | speciōse | speciōsa | speciōsum | speciōsī | speciōsae | speciōsa | |
Related terms
Descendants
- English: specious
- French: spécieux
- Italian: specioso, spezioso
- Portuguese: especioso
- Romanian: specios
- Spanish: especioso
See also
References
- “speciosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “speciosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- speciosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.