vacerrosus
Latin
Etymology
From vacerra + -ōsus, only attested in Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum (Aug.87) a favourite word of the emperor Augustus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wa.kɛrˈroː.sʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [va.t͡ʃerˈrɔː.s̬us]
Adjective
vacerrōsus (feminine vacerrōsa, neuter vacerrōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- (hapax legomenon) mad, crazed, demented
- 121 AD, Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, volume Aug.87:
- Ponit assidue et pro stulto 'baceolum' apud pullum 'pulleiaceum' et pro cerrito 'uacerrosum' et [...]
- He always used to write "baceolus" instead of stultus (foolish), instead of pullus "pulleiaceus" (dark) and, of cerritus, "vacerrosus" and [...]
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | vacerrōsus | vacerrōsa | vacerrōsum | vacerrōsī | vacerrōsae | vacerrōsa | |
| genitive | vacerrōsī | vacerrōsae | vacerrōsī | vacerrōsōrum | vacerrōsārum | vacerrōsōrum | |
| dative | vacerrōsō | vacerrōsae | vacerrōsō | vacerrōsīs | |||
| accusative | vacerrōsum | vacerrōsam | vacerrōsum | vacerrōsōs | vacerrōsās | vacerrōsa | |
| ablative | vacerrōsō | vacerrōsā | vacerrōsō | vacerrōsīs | |||
| vocative | vacerrōse | vacerrōsa | vacerrōsum | vacerrōsī | vacerrōsae | vacerrōsa | |
References
- “vacerrosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vacerrosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.