Verse Vocab (Mathew Owen)

acerbus, a, um

sharp, bitter

artus, -us (m)

limb

acutus, a, um

sharp

adulter, a, um

adulterous; adulterer

aeger, aegra, aegrum

sick, weary; love sick

aeneus, a, um

made of bronze, bronze

albus, a, um

white

ambo, -ae, -a

both

amoenus, a, um

pleasant, charming

antiquus, -a, -um

ancient, previous

aptus, -a, -um

appropriate

arduus, -a, -um

high, steep; difficult

asper, -era, -erum

harsh, cruel; ruinous

ater, atra, atrum

black, dark

avidus, -a, -um

greedy, eager

bellus, a, um

beautiful

blandus, -a, -um

flattering

caeruleus, -a, -um

dark blue, dark coloured

candidus, -a, -um

white, bright

castus, -a, -um

chaste

celsus, -a, -um

high

citus, -a, -um

quick

commotus, -a, -um

moved; excited

consuetus, a, um

usual, accustomed

cruentus, a, um

bloody, blood-stained; cruel

curvus, -a, -um

hooked, curved

exiguus, -a, -um

small

ferus, -a, -um

wild, savage

fidus, -a, -um

trusty, loyal

flavus, a, um

yellow, golden; golden haired

fulvus, -a, -um

golden, tawny

gelidus, -a, -um

icy

geminus, -a, -um

twin, double (pl. both)

Graius, -a, -um

Greek

gratus, -a, -um

welcome, pleasing

hesternus, -a, -um

of yesterday

immeritus, -a, -um

undeserving, undeserved

impius, -a, -um

undutiful

inritus/irritus, -a, -um

futile, worthless

iucundus, a, um

pleasant

lassatus, -a, -um

tired

lassus, -a, -um

weary, tired

lepidus, a, um

charming, elegant

liquidus, -a, -um

clear

maestus, -a, -um

woeful, gloomy

marmoreus, -a, -um

of/like marble

maternus, a, um

of one's mother, maternal

meritus, -a, -um

deserving; deserved

mirus, -a, -um

wonderful

nefandus, -a, -um

wicked

niger, -ra, -rum

black

niveus, -a, -um

snowy, white

nocturnus, -a, -um

nocturnal, of the night

nubilus, -a, -um

cloudy

nudus, -a, -um

naked, bare

orbus, -a, -um

deprived of (+ abl)

pactus, -a, -um

agreed, settled

paternus, -a, -um

of a father; ancestral

patrius, -a, -um

of a father; ancestral

pavidus, -a, -um

trembling, terrified

pius, -a, -um

dutiful

placidus, -a, -um

calm, peaceful

priscus, -a, -um

old, former

profundus, a, um

deep

purpureus, -a, -um

purple, red; bright, glowing

rarus, -a, -um

rare, occasional, spread out

recurvus, -a, -um

hooked, curved

regius, -a, -um

royal

sanguineus, -a, -um

bloody, of blood, blood-red

saucius, -a, -um

wounded

sedulus, a, um

busy, attentive

sidereus, -a, -um

starry

singuli, -ae, -a (pl)

one each, individual

subitus, -a, -um

sudden

superus, -a, -um

high, above

supremus, -a, -um

highest; last

surdus, a, um

deaf, unreceptive

tardus, -a, -um

slow, delaying

tener, tenera, tenerum

tender

tepidus, -a, -um

warm

timidus, -a, -um

fearful

Troicus, -a, -um

Trojan

udus, -a, -um

wet

uvidus, a, um

damp, moist

varius, a, um

various, changing, multi-coloured

vastus, -a, -um

enormous, vast

ventosus, -a, -um

windy

agrestis, -e

of the countryside

ales, alitis

winged; bird

amens, entis

out of one's mind, mad, frantic

caelestis, -e

heavenly, divine

dulcis, -e

sweet, pleasant

exanimis, -e

lifeless, dead

exsanguis, -e

bloodless, pale, faint

fallax, -acis

deceitful

grandis, -e

large, great, powerful

inanis, -e

empty

lenis, -e

gentle

mitis, -e

soft, gentle