meticulosus
Latin
Alternative forms
- metūculōsus
Etymology
From metus (“fear”) + -culōsus, extracted from perīculōsus (“perilous”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /me.ti.kuˈloː.sus/, [mɛt̪ɪkʊˈɫ̪oːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /me.ti.kuˈlo.sus/, [met̪ikuˈlɔːs̬us]
Adjective
meticulōsus (feminine meticulōsa, neuter meticulōsum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| 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
- → Catalan: meticulós
- → English: meticulous
- → French: méticuleux
- → Galician: meticuloso
- → Italian: meticoloso
- → Portuguese: meticuloso
- → Romanian: meticulos
- → Spanish: meticuloso
References
- “meticulosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- meticulosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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