adjectivefirst/second-declension adjective
perōsus
perōsus (feminine perōsa, neuter perōsum)
Classical[pɛˈroː.sʊs]Ecclesiastical[peˈrɔː.s̬us]
Meaning
- activeadjectivehating, loathing, detesting, abhorring
- Late Latinadjectivehated, loathed, hateful, odious
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
quī valdē ōditperōsus -a -um — in Metamorphoses I, ch. 5, 15, 22
valdē ōsus, ōdiō plēnusperōsus -a -um — in Aeneis, ch. 21
Declension
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | perōsus | perōsa | perōsum |
| genitive | perōsī | perōsae | perōsī |
| dative | perōsō | perōsae | perōsō |
| accusative | perōsum | perōsam | perōsum |
| ablative | perōsō | perōsā | perōsō |
| vocative | perōse | perōsa | perōsum |
| form | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | perōsī | perōsae | perōsa |
| genitive | perōsōrum | perōsārum | perōsōrum |
| dative | perōsīs | perōsīs | perōsīs |
| accusative | perōsōs | perōsās | perōsa |
| ablative | perōsīs | perōsīs | perōsīs |
| vocative | perōsī | perōsae | perōsa |
pĕrōsus, a, um, v. perodi.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
perōsus P. dep.
per-odi, detesting, hating greatly, weary of, disgusted with : lucem, V.: genus omne Femineum, V.: Creten, O.: superbiam regis, L.: decemvirorum scelera, L.
Origins
Perfect active participle of perōdī (“hate very much”), also analysable as an intensified form of per- + ōsus, the perfect participle of ōdī. It replaced the prefix-less form in this function by the end of the Republic.