fōrmōsitās
Meaning
- beauty, good looks
Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms
Formosus · Pulcher · Venustus
1. Formosus means beauty, as far as it excites pleasure and delight by fineness of form; pulchrum, as far as it excites admiration, is imposing, and satisfies the taste by its perfectness; venustum, as far as by its charms it excites desire, and captivates. Formositas works on the natural sense of beauty; pulchritudo, on the cultivated taste; venustas, on the more refined sensuality. Suet. Ner. 51. Fuit vultu pulchro magis quam venusto; that is, it had perfect and regular beauty rather than pleasing features, and possessed a cold, heartless sort of beauty, by which no one felt attracted. Comp. Catull. lxxxvi. Hor. A. P. 99. Cic. Off. i. 36. 2. Venustas, loveliness, is of higher import than gratia, grace; the former transports, the latter only attracts. (iii. 29.)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fōrmōsitās | fōrmōsitātēs |
| genitive | fōrmōsitātis | fōrmōsitātum |
| dative | fōrmōsitātī | fōrmōsitātibus |
| accusative | fōrmōsitātem | fōrmōsitātēs |
| ablative | fōrmōsitāte | fōrmōsitātibus |
| vocative | fōrmōsitās | fōrmōsitātēs |
uxor eximia formositate praedita, App. M. 9, p. 224, 24: decorum positum est in tribus rebus, formositate, ordine, ornatu ad actionem apto, * Cic. Off. 1, 35, 126.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin fōrmōsitās From formōsus + -tās.