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meticulosus
meticulosus
Latin
Alternative forms
- metūculōsus
Adjective
meticulōsus m (feminine meticulōsa, neuter meticulōsum); first/second declension
- full of fear, fearful, timid
- Nullus est hoc meticulosus aeque.
- No one is as careful as him.
- Nullus est hoc meticulosus aeque.
- frightful, terrible
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | meticulōsus | meticulōsa | meticulōsum | meticulōsī | meticulōsae | meticulōsa | |
| genitive | meticulōsī | meticulōsae | meticulōsī | meticulōsōrum | meticulōsārum | meticulōsōrum | |
| dative | meticulōsō | meticulōsō | meticulōsīs | ||||
| accusative | meticulōsum | meticulōsam | meticulōsum | meticulōsōs | meticulōsās | meticulōsa | |
| ablative | meticulōsō | meticulōsā | meticulōsō | meticulōsīs | |||
| vocative | meticulōse | meticulōsa | meticulōsum | meticulōsī | meticulōsae | meticulōsa | |
Descendants
- English: meticulous
- French: méticuleux, méticuleuse
- Italian: meticoloso
- Portuguese: meticuloso
- Spanish: meticuloso, meticulosa
References
- meticulosus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “meticulosus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.