assis

See also: Assis

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin assessus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.si/

• Audio:

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Adjective

assis (feminine assise, masculine plural assis, feminine plural assises)

1. sat, sat down, seated

Derived terms

• être assis entre deux chaises

Participle

assis (feminine assise, masculine plural assis, feminine plural assises)

1. past participle of asseoir

Verb

assis

1. first/second-person plural past historic of asseoir

Participle

assis m pl

1. masculine plural of assi

Further reading

• “assis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈas.sis/, [ˈäs̠ːɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.sis/, [ˈäsːis]

Etymology 1

Noun

assis m (genitive assis); third declension

1. Alternative form of axis (“axle”).

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	assis	assēs
Genitive	assis	assium
Dative	assī	assibus
Accusative	assem	assēs assīs
Ablative	asse	assibus
Vocative	assis	assēs

Derived terms

• assula (“splinter, shingle”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

assis

1. genitive singular of as

References

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

Middle English

Noun

assis

1. Alternative form of assise