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facinorosus
facinorosus
Latin
Adjective
facinorōsus m (feminine facinorōsa, neuter facinorōsum); first/second declension
- criminal, villainous
- 1766, Clement XIII, Christianae Reipublicae salus, quoted in 1832 by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos
- […] nunquam enim materia subtrahetur erroris, nisi pravitatis facinorosa elementa in flammis combusta depereant.
- 1766, Clement XIII, Christianae Reipublicae salus, quoted in 1832 by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos
- atrocious, vicious
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | facinorōsus | facinorōsa | facinorōsum | facinorōsī | facinorōsae | facinorōsa | |
| genitive | facinorōsī | facinorōsae | facinorōsī | facinorōsōrum | facinorōsārum | facinorōsōrum | |
| dative | facinorōsō | facinorōsō | facinorōsīs | ||||
| accusative | facinorōsum | facinorōsam | facinorōsum | facinorōsōs | facinorōsās | facinorōsa | |
| ablative | facinorōsō | facinorōsā | facinorōsō | facinorōsīs | |||
| vocative | facinorōse | facinorōsa | facinorōsum | facinorōsī | facinorōsae | facinorōsa | |
Descendants
- Portuguese: facinoroso
References
- facinorosus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- facinorosus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “facinorosus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.