remorsus

Latin

Etymology

remordeō +‎ -tus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /reˈmor.sus/, [rɛˈmɔrs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈmor.sus/, [reˈmɔrsus]

Noun

remorsus m (genitive remorsūs); fourth declension

1. (Late Latin) a biting in return
2. (Medieval Latin, figurative) a gnawing, a pricking, remorse

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	remorsus	remorsūs
Genitive	remorsūs	remorsuum
Dative	remorsuī	remorsibus
Accusative	remorsum	remorsūs
Ablative	remorsū	remorsibus
Vocative	remorsus	remorsūs

Descendants

• → English: remorse
• → French: remords
• → Galician: remorso
• → Portuguese: remorso

References

• “remorsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “remorsus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• remorsus 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)