"murcidus" meaning in Latin

See murcidus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: By surface analysis, murcus (“shortened, mutilated”) + -idus. However, the form murcus may actually have been back-formed from this adjective. The semantic connection between the two words may relate to the supposed cowardice of individuals who mutilated themselves to avoid the draft. Etymology templates: {{surf|la|murcus|-idus|t1=shortened, mutilated}} By surface analysis, murcus (“shortened, mutilated”) + -idus Head templates: {{la-adj|murcidus}} murcidus (feminine murcida, neuter murcidum); first/second-declension adjective, {{tlb|la|pre-classical}} (pre-classical) Inflection templates: {{la-adecl|murcidus}} Forms: murcida [feminine], murcidum [neuter], no-table-tags [table-tags], murcidus [masculine, nominative, singular], murcida [feminine, nominative, singular], murcidum [neuter, nominative, singular], murcidī [masculine, nominative, plural], murcidae [feminine, nominative, plural], murcida [neuter, nominative, plural], murcidī [genitive, masculine, singular], murcidae [feminine, genitive, singular], murcidī [genitive, neuter, singular], murcidōrum [genitive, masculine, plural], murcidārum [feminine, genitive, plural], murcidōrum [genitive, neuter, plural], murcidō [dative, masculine, singular], murcidae [dative, feminine, singular], murcidō [dative, neuter, singular], murcidīs [dative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], murcidum [accusative, masculine, singular], murcidam [accusative, feminine, singular], murcidum [accusative, neuter, singular], murcidōs [accusative, masculine, plural], murcidās [accusative, feminine, plural], murcida [accusative, neuter, plural], murcidō [ablative, masculine, singular], murcidā [ablative, feminine, singular], murcidō [ablative, neuter, singular], murcidīs [ablative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], murcide [masculine, singular, vocative], murcida [feminine, singular, vocative], murcidum [neuter, singular, vocative], murcidī [masculine, plural, vocative], murcidae [feminine, plural, vocative], murcida [neuter, plural, vocative]
  1. slothful, inactive, lazy Tags: adjective, declension-1, declension-2 Synonyms: dēses, iners, piger, sēgnis, ignāvus, socors, languidus
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        },
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      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "vīvus"
        },
        {
          "word": "strēnuus"
        },
        {
          "word": "impiger"
        },
        {
          "word": "alacer"
        },
        {
          "word": "ācer"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "Latin adjectives",
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin first and second declension adjectives",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin terms suffixed with -idus",
        "Old Latin",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "slothful, inactive, lazy"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "slothful",
          "slothful"
        ],
        [
          "inactive",
          "inactive"
        ],
        [
          "lazy",
          "lazy"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dēses"
        },
        {
          "word": "iners"
        },
        {
          "word": "piger"
        },
        {
          "word": "sēgnis"
        },
        {
          "word": "ignāvus"
        },
        {
          "word": "socors"
        },
        {
          "word": "languidus"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adjective",
        "declension-1",
        "declension-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "murcidus"
}

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