rosus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of rōdō (“gnaw, eat away”).

Participle

rōsus (feminine rōsa, neuter rōsum); first/second-declension participle

  1. gnawed, eaten away, having been gnawed.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative rōsus rōsa rōsum rōsī rōsae rōsa
Genitive rōsī rōsae rōsī rōsōrum rōsārum rōsōrum
Dative rōsō rōsō rōsīs
Accusative rōsum rōsam rōsum rōsōs rōsās rōsa
Ablative rōsō rōsā rōsō rōsīs
Vocative rōse rōsa rōsum rōsī rōsae rōsa

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Aromanian: aros
  • Italian: roso
  • Romanian: ros
  • Spanish: roso

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