alsiosus

From alsius (“chilly, cold, cool”) + -ōsus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aɫ.siˈoː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [al.siˈɔː.s̬us]

alsiōsus (feminine alsiōsa, neuter alsiōsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. easily freezing, susceptible to cold
   • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Rerum rusticarum 2.3.6:

     Stabulatur pecus melius, ad hibernos exortos si spectat, quod est alsiosum.

     It is better to have the goat stalls face the sunrise in winter, as the animals feel the cold acutely.

First/second-declension adjective.

• “alsiosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “alsiosus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.