famosus

Latin

Etymology

From fāma (“fame”) +‎ -ōsus (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /faːˈmoː.sus/, [fäːˈmoːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /faˈmo.sus/, [fäˈmɔːs̬us]

Adjective

fāmōsus (feminine fāmōsa, neuter fāmōsum, superlative fāmōsissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. famed, celebrated, noted, renowned, famous

   Synonyms: clārus, praeclārus, inclitus, celeber, memorātus

2. infamous, notorious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	fāmōsus	fāmōsa	fāmōsum		fāmōsī	fāmōsae	fāmōsa
genitive	fāmōsī	fāmōsae	fāmōsī		fāmōsōrum	fāmōsārum	fāmōsōrum
dative	fāmōsō	fāmōsae	fāmōsō		fāmōsīs
accusative	fāmōsum	fāmōsam	fāmōsum		fāmōsōs	fāmōsās	fāmōsa
ablative	fāmōsō	fāmōsā	fāmōsō		fāmōsīs
vocative	fāmōse	fāmōsa	fāmōsum		fāmōsī	fāmōsae	fāmōsa

Descendants

• Asturian: famosu
• Catalan: famós
• German: famos
• English: famous
• Extremaduran: famosu
• Friulian: famôs
• Galician: famoso
• Hungarian: famózus
• Ido: famoza
• Interlingua: famose
• Italian: famoso
• Old French: fameus
  • French: fameux
  • Norman: fanmeux
• Piedmontese: famos
• Portuguese: famoso
• Romanian: faimos
• Sicilian: famusu
• Spanish: famoso
• Venetan: famùso

References

• “famosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “famosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• famosus 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)
• famosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.