Latin

Adjective

perīculōsus m ‎(feminine perīculōsa, neuter perīculōsum); first/second declension

1. dangerous, hazardous, perilous
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 15

     Horum te mori nemo coget, omnes docebunt; horum nemo annos tuos conteret, suos tibi contribuet; nullius ex his sermo periculosus erit, nullius amicitia capitalis, nullius sumptuosa obseruatio.

     No one of these will force you to die, but all will teach you how to die; no one of these will wear out your years, but each will add his own years to yours; conversations with no one of these will bring you peril, the friendship of none will endanger your life, the courting of none will tax your purse.

Inflection

First/second declension.

Related terms

• perīculōsē
• perīculum

Descendants

References

• periculosus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• periculosus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• PERICULOSUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “periculosus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• periculosus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016