ausus

From aus +‎ -us.

ausus (genitive aususe, partitive ausust)

1. honesty

• austus
• au
• aus
• austama

Perfect passive participle of audeō. The participle displaced proto-Italic awidatos (See Proto-Italic *awidēō (“to be greedy, want very much”)).

ausus m (genitive ausūs); fourth declension

1. an attempt, a hazard
2. an act of daring or audacity

   Synonyms: ausum, fortia, gestum, decus

Fourth-declension noun.

ausus (feminine ausa, neuter ausum); first/second-declension participle

1. dared, having dared, ventured, having ventured, risked, having risked

   aususestdicereseprorsusnollemilitare ― dared to say that he does not wish to be a soldier at all

   • Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I, 13:

     Sabinaemulieres [...] ausaeseintertelavolantiainferre

     The Sabine women dared to go amongst the flying missiles

2. (poetic) having been eager for battle

First/second-declension adjective.

• inausus

• “ausus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ausus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ausus 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)
• ausus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• ausus in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2023) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication