numerose
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin numerōsus (“numerous, abundant; harmonious”), from numerus (“number”). Doublet of numerous.
Adjective
[edit]numerose (comparative more numerose, superlative most numerose)
- Obsolete form of numerous.
- 1683, Walter Charleton, Three Anatomic Lectures, page 92:
- […] For, Mechanic Examples of this kind are every where so obvious to sense, and so numerose, that only to enumerate them would be a task hard and tediose.
Interlingua
[edit]Adjective
[edit]numerose (comparative plus numerose, superlative le plus numerose)
Italian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]numerose f
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Adverb
[edit]numerōsē (comparative numerōsius, superlative numerōsissimē)
Synonyms
[edit]- (rhythmically): numerōsiter
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “numerose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “numerose”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- numerose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to have a rhythmical cadence: numerose cadere
- his style has a well-balanced cadence: oratio numerose cadit
- to have a rhythmical cadence: numerose cadere
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