parlous

Significado (inglés)

1. Attended with peril; dangerous, risky.
2. Appalling, dire, terrible.
3. (obsolete) Dangerously clever or cunning; also, remarkably good or unusual.

Guionizado como

parl‧ous

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈpɑːləs/

From Middle English parles, parlous, perlous, [and other forms], a contraction of perilous (“dangerous; dreadful, terrible; morally corrupt, sinful, wicked; inauspicious, unlucky”) (and thus a doublet of perilous), from Old French perilleus, perillos, perillous, perilluse, perilleuse, perilleux (“very dangerous, perilous”) (modern French périlleux), from Latin perīculōsus (“dangerous, hazardous, perilous”), from perīculum (“danger, hazard, peril, risk”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to dare, risk, try”)) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’ forming adjectives).