osus

See also: ošus and -osus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect active participle of ōdī (“to hate; dislike”), likewise used in the present active meaning in earlier Latin.

Participle

ōsus (feminine ōsa, neuter ōsum); first/second-declension participle

1. having hated, loathed, detested
2. (Old Latin, active voice) hating, loathing, detesting, abhorring
   • 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 201, line 18:

     Ōsī sunt, ab odiō dēclīnāsse antīquōs testis est C. Gracchus in eā, quae est dē lēge Minuciā, cum ait: 'Mīrum sī quid hīs iniūriae fit; semper eōs ōsī sunt.' Quod nunc quoque cum praepositiōne ēlātum frequēns est, quandō dīcimus semper perōsī.

     That the old authors formed ōsī sunt from odium is witnessed by Gaius Gracchus in his Minucian law speech, when he says: 'It would be remarkable if any injury happens to these people; they've always hated those people.' This word is frequent even now when intensified by a prefix, since we always say perōsī.

3. (Late Latin, passive voice, rare, learned) alternative form of perōsus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ōsus	ōsa	ōsum		ōsī	ōsae	ōsa
genitive	ōsī	ōsae	ōsī		ōsōrum	ōsārum	ōsōrum
dative	ōsō	ōsae	ōsō		ōsīs
accusative	ōsum	ōsam	ōsum		ōsōs	ōsās	ōsa
ablative	ōsō	ōsā	ōsō		ōsīs
vocative	ōse	ōsa	ōsum		ōsī	ōsae	ōsa

Derived terms

• perōsus
• exōsus

Related terms

• ōdī
• odiō
• ōsor

References

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