numerose

English

Etymology

From Latin numerōsus (“numerous, abundant; harmonious”), from numerus (“number”). Doublet of numerous.

Adjective

numerose (comparative more numerose, superlative most numerose)

1. Obsolete form of numerous.
   • 1683, Walter Charleton, Three Anatomic Lectures, page 92:

     […] For, Mechanic Examples of this kind are every where so obvious to sense, and so numerose, that only to enumerate them would be a task hard and tediose.

Interlingua

Adjective

numerose (comparative plus numerose, superlative le plus numerose)

1. numerous

Italian

Adjective

numerose f

1. feminine plural of numeroso

Anagrams

• emunsero

Latin

Adverb

numerōsē (comparative numerōsius, superlative numerōsissimē)

1. numerously, manifoldly, abundantly, plentifully
2. harmoniously, melodically, rhythmically

Synonyms

• (rhythmically): numerōsiter

Related terms

• numerābilis
• numerālis
• numerārius
• numerātiō
• numerātor
• numerātus
• numerius
• numerō
• numerōsitās
• numerōsiter
• numerōsus
• numerus

References

• “numerose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “numerose”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “numerose”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to have a rhythmical cadence: numerose cadere
    
  • his style has a well-balanced cadence: oratio numerose cadit