luctuosus

Latin

Etymology

From lūctus (“mourning, lamentation”) +‎ -ōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫuːk.tuˈoː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [luk.t̪uˈɔː.s̬us]

Adjective

lūctuōsus (feminine lūctuōsa, neuter lūctuōsum, comparative lūctuōsior, superlative lūctuōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. sorrowful, sad
2. lamentable, doleful, mournful

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	lūctuōsus	lūctuōsa	lūctuōsum		lūctuōsī	lūctuōsae	lūctuōsa
genitive	lūctuōsī	lūctuōsae	lūctuōsī		lūctuōsōrum	lūctuōsārum	lūctuōsōrum
dative	lūctuōsō	lūctuōsae	lūctuōsō		lūctuōsīs
accusative	lūctuōsum	lūctuōsam	lūctuōsum		lūctuōsōs	lūctuōsās	lūctuōsa
ablative	lūctuōsō	lūctuōsā	lūctuōsō		lūctuōsīs
vocative	lūctuōse	lūctuōsa	lūctuōsum		lūctuōsī	lūctuōsae	lūctuōsa

Descendants

• Galician: loitosa; luctuoso (borrowing)
• Romanian: luctuos (borrowing)

References

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