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formosus

formosus

Latin

Adjective

fōrmōsus m ‎(feminine fōrmōsa, neuter fōrmōsum); first/second declension

Inflection

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular				Plural
nominative	fōrmōsus	fōrmōsa	fōrmōsum		fōrmōsī	fōrmōsae	fōrmōsa
genitive	fōrmōsī	fōrmōsae	fōrmōsī		fōrmōsōrum	fōrmōsārum	fōrmōsōrum
dative	fōrmōsō	fōrmōsae	fōrmōsō		fōrmōsīs
accusative	fōrmōsum	fōrmōsam	fōrmōsum		fōrmōsōs	fōrmōsās	fōrmōsa
ablative	fōrmōsō	fōrmōsā	fōrmōsō		fōrmōsīs
vocative	fōrmōse	fōrmōsa	fōrmōsum		fōrmōsī	fōrmōsae	fōrmōsa

comparative: fōrmōsior, superlative: fōrmōsissimus

Related terms

Descendants

Asturian: formosu
Catalan: formós
Extremaduran: hermosu
Galician: fermoso
Italian: formoso

Ladino: fermozo/ermozo
Old Portuguese: fermosu, fremosu
Portuguese: formoso
Romanian: frumos
Spanish: hermoso

References

formosus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
formosus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “formosus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.