dolorosus

Latin

Etymology

dolor (“pain; grief”) +‎ -ōsus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /do.loːˈroː.sus/, [d̪ɔɫ̪oːˈroːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /do.loˈro.sus/, [d̪oloˈrɔːs̬us]

Adjective

dolōrōsus (feminine dolōrōsa, neuter dolōrōsum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Late Latin) painful; full of sorrow, sorrowful

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	dolōrōsus	dolōrōsa	dolōrōsum		dolōrōsī	dolōrōsae	dolōrōsa
Genitive	dolōrōsī	dolōrōsae	dolōrōsī		dolōrōsōrum	dolōrōsārum	dolōrōsōrum
Dative	dolōrōsō		dolōrōsō		dolōrōsīs
Accusative	dolōrōsum	dolōrōsam	dolōrōsum		dolōrōsōs	dolōrōsās	dolōrōsa
Ablative	dolōrōsō	dolōrōsā	dolōrōsō		dolōrōsīs
Vocative	dolōrōse	dolōrōsa	dolōrōsum		dolōrōsī	dolōrōsae	dolōrōsa

Synonyms

• (sorrowful; painful): aeger, cruciābilis, gravis, trīstis

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “painful”): indolōrius

Related terms

• dolēns
• dolenter
• dolentia
• dolentulus
• doleō
• dolidus
• dolitō
• dolor

Descendants

• Asturian: dolorosu
• Catalan: dolorós
• Dutch: doloreus, douloureus
• English: dolorose, dolorous
• French: douloureux
• Friulian: dolorôs
• Italian: doloroso
• Occitan: dolorós
• Old French: dolerous
• Old Galician-Portuguese: dooroso
• → Portuguese: doloroso
• Romanian: dururos
• Sardinian: dolorosu, dulurosu, dururosu
• Sicilian: dulurusu
• Spanish: doloroso
• Venetian: dołoroxo, doloros

References

• “dolorosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dolorosus 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)
• dolorosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.