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dolorosus

dolorosus

Latin

Adjective

dolōrōsus m ‎(feminine dolōrōsa, neuter dolōrōsum); first/second declension

painful; full of sorrow, sorrowful

Inflection

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular				Plural
nominative	dolōrōsus	dolōrōsa	dolōrōsum		dolōrōsī	dolōrōsae	dolōrōsa
genitive	dolōrōsī	dolōrōsae	dolōrōsī		dolōrōsōrum	dolōrōsārum	dolōrōsōrum
dative	dolōrōsō	dolōrōsae	dolōrōsō		dolōrōsīs
accusative	dolōrōsum	dolōrōsam	dolōrōsum		dolōrōsōs	dolōrōsās	dolōrōsa
ablative	dolōrōsō	dolōrōsā	dolōrōsō		dolōrōsīs
vocative	dolōrōse	dolōrōsa	dolōrōsum		dolōrōsī	dolōrōsae	dolōrōsa

Synonyms

(sorrowful; painful): aeger, cruciābilis, gravis, trīstis

Antonyms

(painful): indolōrius

Related terms

dolēns
dolenter
dolentia
dolentulus

doleō
dolidus
dolitō
dolor

Descendants

Asturian: dolorosu
Catalan: dolorós
Dutch: doloreus, douloureus
English: dolorose, dolorous
French: douloureux
Friulian: dolorôs
Italian: doloroso
Occitan: dolorós
Old French: dolerous

Old Portuguese: dooroso
Portuguese: doloroso
Romanian: dururos
Sardinian: dolorosu, dulurosu, dururosu
Sicilian: dulurusu
Spanish: doloroso
Venetian: dołoroxo, doloros

References

dolorosus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
DOLOROSUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “dolorosus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.