periculosus

From perīculum (“an attempt, risk”) +‎ -ōsus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pe.riː.kuˈloː.sus/, [pɛriːkʊˈɫ̪oːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pe.ri.kuˈlo.sus/, [perikuˈlɔːs̬us]

perīculōsus (feminine perīculōsa, neuter perīculōsum, superlative perīculōsissimus, adverb perīculōsē); first/second-declension adjective

1. dangerous, hazardous, perilous

   Synonyms: anceps, īnfēnsus, dubius, capitālis

   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 15:

     Horum te mori nemo coget, omnes docebunt; horum nemo annos tuos conteret, suos tibi contribuet; nullius ex his sermo periculosus erit, nullius amicitia capitalis, nullius sumptuosa obseruatio.

     No one of these will force you to die, but all will teach you how to die; no one of these will wear out your years, but each will add his own years to yours; conversations with no one of these will bring you peril, the friendship of none will endanger your life, the courting of none will tax your purse.

First/second-declension adjective.

• perīculōsē
• perīculum

• “periculosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “periculosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• periculosus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• periculosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• periculosus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016