insidiosus

Latin

Etymology

From īnsidiae (“a lying in wait, an ambush, artifice, stratagem”) +‎ -ōsus, from īnsideō (“sit in or on”), from in (“in, on”) + sedeō (“sit”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /in.si.diˈoː.sus/, [ĩː.sɪ.dɪˈoː.sʊs]

Adjective

īnsidiōsus (feminine īnsidiōsa, neuter īnsidiōsum); first/second declension

cunning, deceitful, insidious
dangerous, hazardous

Inflection

First/second declension.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	īnsidiōsus	īnsidiōsa	īnsidiōsum	īnsidiōsī	īnsidiōsae	īnsidiōsa
Genitive	īnsidiōsī	īnsidiōsae	īnsidiōsī	īnsidiōsōrum	īnsidiōsārum	īnsidiōsōrum
Dative	īnsidiōsō	īnsidiōsae	īnsidiōsō	īnsidiōsīs
Accusative	īnsidiōsum	īnsidiōsam	īnsidiōsum	īnsidiōsōs	īnsidiōsās	īnsidiōsa
Ablative	īnsidiōsō	īnsidiōsā	īnsidiōsō	īnsidiōsīs
Vocative	īnsidiōse	īnsidiōsa	īnsidiōsum	īnsidiōsī	īnsidiōsae	īnsidiōsa

comparative: īnsidiōsior, superlative: īnsidiōsissimus

Derived terms

īnsidiōsē

Related terms

Descendants

Catalan: insidiós
English: insidious
French: insidieux

Italian: insidioso
Portuguese: insidioso
Spanish: insidioso

References

insidiosus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
insidiosus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
insidiosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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