aggestus
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom aggerō.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aɡˈɡes.tus/, [äɡˈɡɛs̠t̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /adˈd͡ʒes.tus/, [ädˈd͡ʒɛst̪us]
Noun
editaggestus m (genitive aggestūs); fourth declension
- an accumulation, a piling up, act of bringing
- a mound, dike, or elevation formed like a dike; an earthen bank
Declension
editFourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | aggestus | aggestūs |
Genitive | aggestūs | aggestuum |
Dative | aggestuī | aggestibus |
Accusative | aggestum | aggestūs |
Ablative | aggestū | aggestibus |
Vocative | aggestus | aggestūs |
Descendants
edit- Romanian: agest
References
edit- “aggestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aggestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aggestus 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)
- aggestus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.