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Morphology Lemmata operosus (external link: operosus )Forms: operosa (data provider: perseus), operosae (data provider: perseus), operosaeque (data provider: perseus), operosam (data provider: perseus), operose (data provider: perseus), operosi (data provider: perseus), operosior (data provider: perseus), operosiores (data provider: perseus), operosiori (data provider: donatus-sup), operosis (data provider: perseus), operosissima (data provider: perseus), operosissimae (data provider: donatus-sup), operosius (data provider: perseus), operoso (data provider: perseus), operosum (data provider: perseus), operosus (data provider: perseus)Dictionary Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary operosus ŏpĕrōsus, a, um, adj. [opera].
I. Taking great pains , painstaking , active , busy , industrious , laborious (class.; syn.: laboriosus, industrius): senectus, opp. to languida atque iners , Cic. Sen. 8, 26 : colonus , Ov. Nuce, 57 : cultibus ambae , id. Am. 2, 10, 5 . —Poet. with Gr. acc. : Cynthia non operosa comas (al. comis) , Prop. 5, 8, 52 .—Poet. with gen. : vates operose dierum , in regard to , Ov. F. 1, 101 .—Sup. : Syria in hortis operosissima , exceedingly industrious in gardening , Plin. 20, 5, 16, 33 .—
B. Transf. , of a medicine, active , efficacious , powerful , drastic (poet. ): herbae , Ov. M. 14, 22 .—
II. That costs much trouble , troublesome , toilsome , laborious , difficult , elaborate (syn. difficilis): labor operosus et molestus , Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 59 : artes , handicrafts , id. Off. 2, 5, 17 : opus , id. Q. Fr. 2, 14, 1 : res , Liv. 4, 8 : templa , costly , sumptuous , Ov. M. 15, 667 : moles mundi , the artfully constructed fabric of the universe , id. ib. 1, 258 : castaneae cibo , hard to digest , Plin. 15, 23, 25, 93 : carmina , elaborate , Hor. C. 4, 2, 31 .—Comp. : ne quis sepulcrum faceret operosius, quam quod decem homines effecerint triduo , Cic. Leg. 2, 26, 64 : divitiae operosiores , Hor. C. 3, 1, 48 ; 3, 12, 5 .—Hence, adv. : ŏpĕrōsē.
A. Lit. , with great labor or pains , laboriously , carefully (class.): nec flat operose , Cic. Or. 44, 149 : vina condita, Ov F. 5, 269.—Comp. : dicemus operosius , more precisely , Plin. 18, 26, 65, 238 .—
B. Transf. , exactly , accurately (post-Aug.): dicemus mox paulo operosius , Plin. 18, 26, 65, 238 .
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