operosus

Latin

Etymology

From opera +‎ -ōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔ.pɛˈroː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [o.peˈrɔː.s̬us]

Adjective

operōsus (feminine operōsa, neuter operōsum, comparative operōsior, superlative operōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. painstaking
2. active, busy, industrious
3. laborious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	operōsus	operōsa	operōsum		operōsī	operōsae	operōsa
genitive	operōsī	operōsae	operōsī		operōsōrum	operōsārum	operōsōrum
dative	operōsō	operōsae	operōsō		operōsīs
accusative	operōsum	operōsam	operōsum		operōsōs	operōsās	operōsa
ablative	operōsō	operōsā	operōsō		operōsīs
vocative	operōse	operōsa	operōsum		operōsī	operōsae	operōsa

Descendants

• English: operous, operose
• Italian: operoso
• Piedmontese: operos
• Portuguese: operoso

References

• “operosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “operosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "operosus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “operosus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.