virosus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *weys-

Proto-Indo-European *wisós

Proto-Italic *weizos

Latin virus

Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?

Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos?

Old Latin -ōssus

Latin -osus

Latin vīrōsus

From virus + -osus.

Adjective

vīrōsus (feminine vīrōsa, neuter vīrōsum); first/second-declension participle

1. stinking
2. (Late Latin) poisonous

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vīrōsus	vīrōsa	vīrōsum		vīrōsī	vīrōsae	vīrōsa
genitive	vīrōsī	vīrōsae	vīrōsī		vīrōsōrum	vīrōsārum	vīrōsōrum
dative	vīrōsō	vīrōsae	vīrōsō		vīrōsīs
accusative	vīrōsum	vīrōsam	vīrōsum		vīrōsōs	vīrōsās	vīrōsa
ablative	vīrōsō	vīrōsā	vīrōsō		vīrōsīs
vocative	vīrōse	vīrōsa	vīrōsum		vīrōsī	vīrōsae	vīrōsa

Descendants

• Italian: viroso

References

• “virosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “virosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "virosus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “virosus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.