flagitiosus

flagitiosus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin flāgitō
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin flāgitium
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-der.
Latin -ōsus
Latin flāgitiōsus

    From flāgitium + -ōsus.

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    flāgitiōsus (feminine flāgitiōsa, neuter flāgitiōsum, superlative flāgitiōsissimus, adverb flāgitiōsē); first/second-declension adjective

    1. shameful, disgraceful, scandalous
    2. profligate, dissolute

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative flāgitiōsus flāgitiōsa flāgitiōsum flāgitiōsī flāgitiōsae flāgitiōsa
    genitive flāgitiōsī flāgitiōsae flāgitiōsī flāgitiōsōrum flāgitiōsārum flāgitiōsōrum
    dative flāgitiōsō flāgitiōsae flāgitiōsō flāgitiōsīs
    accusative flāgitiōsum flāgitiōsam flāgitiōsum flāgitiōsōs flāgitiōsās flāgitiōsa
    ablative flāgitiōsō flāgitiōsā flāgitiōsō flāgitiōsīs
    vocative flāgitiōse flāgitiōsa flāgitiōsum flāgitiōsī flāgitiōsae flāgitiōsa

    Descendants

    • English: flagitious (extremely brutal or cruel)
    • Portuguese: flagicioso

    References

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