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otiose

otiose is a Latin form of otiosus, meaning “at leisure, idle; quiet, untroubled”. It is the adjective or vocative singular neuter adjective or vocative singular masculine adjective or vocative singular masculine noun.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.33: … gnitate L. Sisennae domus esset plena hominum honestissimorum, accessit ad argentum, contemplari unum quidque otiose et considerare coepit. mirari stultitiam alii, quod in ipso iudicio eius ipsius cupiditatis cuius insimularet …

Terence, Adelphi 2.1.156b: Otiose nunc iam ilico hic consiste.

Plautus, Pseudolus 4.1.920b: Immo ótiosé volo.

All forms of otiosus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.