censorius

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kenˈsoː.ri.us/, [kẽːˈs̠oːriʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃenˈso.ri.us/, [t͡ʃenˈsɔːrius]

Adjective

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

1. censorial
2. rigid, severe
3. austere

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cēnsōrius	cēnsōria	cēnsōrium		cēnsōriī	cēnsōriae	cēnsōria
Genitive	cēnsōriī	cēnsōriae	cēnsōriī		cēnsōriōrum	cēnsōriārum	cēnsōriōrum
Dative	cēnsōriō		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’s 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