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otiosum

otiosum is a Latin form of otiosus, meaning “at leisure, idle; quiet, untroubled”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.3: Pompeius annuum spatium ad comparandas copias nactus, quod vacuum a bello atque ab hoste otiosum fuerat, magnam ex Asia Cycladibusque insulis, Corcyra, Athenis, Ponto, Bithynia, Syria, Cilicia, Phoenice, Ae …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 6.55.4: … mi Lucili, philosophia sacrum quiddam est et venerabile, ut etiam, si quid illi simile est, mendacio placeat. Otiosum enim hominem seductum existimat vulgus et securum et se contentum, sibi viventem, quorum nihil ulli continger …

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.