querulus

From queror (“to complain”) +‎ -ulus (“-ing”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷɛ.rʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷɛː.ru.lus]

querulus (feminine querula, neuter querulum, adverb querulē); first/second-declension adjective

1. (chiefly poetic) complaining, querulous
   • c. 19 BCE, Horace, Ars Poetica 170–174:

     Quaerit et inventis miser abstinet ac timet uti,
     Vel quod res omnes timide gelideque ministrat,
     Dilator, spe longus, iners, avidusque futuri,
     Difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti
     Se puero, castigator censorque minorum.

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   • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows III.8.29–32:

     quique per autumnum percussis frigore primo
     est color in foliis, quae noua laesit hiems,
     is mea membra tenet, nec uiribus alleuor ullis,
     et numquam queruli causa doloris abest.

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   • 61 CE – c. 112 CE, Pliny the Younger, Epistulae IX.15 C. PLINIUS FALCONI SUO S.:

     Refugeram in Tuscos, ut omnia ad arbitrium meum facerem. At hoc ne in Tuscis quidem: tam multis undique rusticorum libellis et tam querulis inquietor, quos aliquanto magis invitus quam meos lego; nam et meos invitus.

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2. (of animals and things) uttering a soft, plaintive sound, murmuring, whimpering, cooing, chirping, etc.
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics III.327–330:

     inde ubi quarta sitim caeli collegerit hora
     et cantu querulae rumpent arbusta cicadae,
     ad puteos aut alta greges ad stagna iubebo<br<currentem ilignis potare canalibus undam; […]

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   • c. 2 CE, Ovid, Cosmetics for the Female Face 77–78:

     […] Addita de querulo volucrum medicamina nido
     Ore fugant maculas (alcyonea vocant); […]

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   • 4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica X.11–12:

     Nam neque sicca placet, nec quae stagnata palude
     perpetitur querulae semper convicia ranae.

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First/second-declension adjective.

• Portuguese: quérulo

• “quĕrŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quĕrŭlus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.