formosus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From fōrma (“shape, beauty”) + -ōsus (“full of”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /foːrˈmoː.sus/, [foːrˈmoːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /forˈmo.sus/, [forˈmɔːs̬us]
Adjective
[edit]fōrmōsus (feminine fōrmōsa, neuter fōrmōsum, comparative fōrmōsior, superlative fōrmōsissimus, adverb fōrmōsē); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | fōrmōsus | fōrmōsa | fōrmōsum | fōrmōsī | fōrmōsae | fōrmōsa | |
| genitive | fōrmōsī | fōrmōsae | fōrmōsī | fōrmōsōrum | fōrmōsārum | fōrmōsōrum | |
| dative | fōrmōsō | fōrmōsae | fōrmōsō | fōrmōsīs | |||
| accusative | fōrmōsum | fōrmōsam | fōrmōsum | fōrmōsōs | fōrmōsās | fōrmōsa | |
| ablative | fōrmōsō | fōrmōsā | fōrmōsō | fōrmōsīs | |||
| vocative | fōrmōse | fōrmōsa | fōrmōsum | fōrmōsī | fōrmōsae | fōrmōsa | |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Borrowed:
- → Asturian: formosu
- → English: formous
- → Middle French: formeux
- French: formeux
- →? Old Occitan: formos
- → Portuguese: formoso
- → Portuguese: Ilha Formosa
- → Dutch: Eilandt Formosa / Eylant Formosa / Eiland Formosa (partial calque)
- → French: Île Formose (partial calque)
- → German: Insel Formosa (partial calque)
- → Spanish: Ysla Hermosa / Isla Hermosa (obsolete) (semantic loan)
- → Spanish: Isla Formosa (partial calque)
- Inherited:
References
[edit]- “formosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “formosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- formosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “formosus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 724