censorius

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin cēnseō

Proto-Indo-European *-tōr

Proto-Italic *-tōr

Latin -tor

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -tōrius

Latin cēnsōrius

From cēnseō (“give an opinion”) + -tōrius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kẽːˈsoː.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃenˈsɔː.ri.us]

Adjective

cēnsōrius (feminine cēnsōria, neuter cēnsōrium); first/second-declension adjective

1. censorial
2. rigid, severe
3. austere

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cēnsōrius	cēnsōria	cēnsōrium		cēnsōriī	cēnsōriae	cēnsōria
genitive	cēnsōriī	cēnsōriae	cēnsōriī		cēnsōriōrum	cēnsōriārum	cēnsōriōrum
dative	cēnsōriō	cēnsōriae	cēnsōriō		cēnsōriīs
accusative	cēnsōrium	cēnsōriam	cēnsōrium		cēnsōriōs	cēnsōriās	cēnsōria
ablative	cēnsōriō	cēnsōriā	cēnsōriō		cēnsōriīs
vocative	cēnsōrie	cēnsōria	cēnsōrium		cēnsōriī	cēnsōriae	cēnsōria

Descendants

• Italian: censorio
• Portuguese: censório
• Spanish: censorio

References

• “censorius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “censorius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "censorius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “censorius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Cato of Utica was a direct descendant of Cato the Censor: Cato Uticensis ortus erat a Catone Censorio
    
  • the reprimand of a censor: nota, animadversio censoria