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otiosus
otiosus
Latin
Adjective
ōtiōsus m (feminine ōtiōsa, neuter ōtiōsum); first/second declension
- idle
- unemployed
- free from office
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | ōtiōsus | ōtiōsa | ōtiōsum | ōtiōsī | ōtiōsae | ōtiōsa | |
| genitive | ōtiōsī | ōtiōsae | ōtiōsī | ōtiōsōrum | ōtiōsārum | ōtiōsōrum | |
| dative | ōtiōsō | ōtiōsō | ōtiōsīs | ||||
| accusative | ōtiōsum | ōtiōsam | ōtiōsum | ōtiōsōs | ōtiōsās | ōtiōsa | |
| ablative | ōtiōsō | ōtiōsā | ōtiōsō | ōtiōsīs | |||
| vocative | ōtiōse | ōtiōsa | ōtiōsum | ōtiōsī | ōtiōsae | ōtiōsa | |
Descendants
References
- otiosus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- otiosus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “otiosus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be at leisure: otiosum esse
- to spend one's leisure hours on an object: otiosum tempus consumere in aliqua re
- to devote all one's leisure moments to study: omne (otiosum) tempus in litteris consumere
- the money is bringing in no interest, lies idle: pecunia iacet otiosa
- to be at leisure: otiosum esse