spissus
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Italic *spissos, from Proto-Indo-European *spidtos (“thick and slow”), cognate to Ancient Greek σπιδνός (spidnós, “dense, solid”), Latvian spiedu (“I compress, I press”), Lithuanian spisti (“to begin to swarm (of bees), gather”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈspis.sus/, [ˈs̠pɪs̠ːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspis.sus/, [ˈspisːus]
Adjective
editspissus (feminine spissa, neuter spissum, comparative spissior, superlative spississimus); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | spissus | spissa | spissum | spissī | spissae | spissa | |
Genitive | spissī | spissae | spissī | spissōrum | spissārum | spissōrum | |
Dative | spissō | spissō | spissīs | ||||
Accusative | spissum | spissam | spissum | spissōs | spissās | spissa | |
Ablative | spissō | spissā | spissō | spissīs | |||
Vocative | spisse | spissa | spissum | spissī | spissae | spissa |
Antonyms
edit- (antonym(s) of “thick, dense”): dīlūtus
Derived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “spissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spissus 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)
- spissus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 581
- ^ “spesso” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN