rosus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of rōdō (“gnaw, eat away”).

Participle

rōsus (feminine rōsa, neuter rōsum); first/second-declension participle

1. gnawed, eaten away, having been gnawed.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	rōsus	rōsa	rōsum		rōsī	rōsae	rōsa
genitive	rōsī	rōsae	rōsī		rōsōrum	rōsārum	rōsōrum
dative	rōsō	rōsae	rōsō		rōsīs
accusative	rōsum	rōsam	rōsum		rōsōs	rōsās	rōsa
ablative	rōsō	rōsā	rōsō		rōsīs
vocative	rōse	rōsa	rōsum		rōsī	rōsae	rōsa

Derived terms

• dērōsus

Descendants

• Aromanian: aros
• Italian: roso
• Romanian: ros
• Spanish: roso

References

• “rosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• rosus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• rosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.