amissus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of āmittō (“let go; lose”).

Participle

āmissus (feminine āmissa, neuter āmissum); first/second-declension participle

1. let go, having been let go
2. lost, having been lost
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.15:

     Quod se prope explorata victoria celeriter amissa reciperaturos confidebant

     Because they were confident that as the victory was certain, they could recover the losses

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	āmissus	āmissa	āmissum		āmissī	āmissae	āmissa
Genitive	āmissī	āmissae	āmissī		āmissōrum	āmissārum	āmissōrum
Dative	āmissō		āmissō		āmissīs
Accusative	āmissum	āmissam	āmissum		āmissōs	āmissās	āmissa
Ablative	āmissō	āmissā	āmissō		āmissīs
Vocative	āmisse	āmissa	āmissum		āmissī	āmissae	āmissa

Derived terms

• āmissiō

References

• “amissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “amissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• amissus 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)
• amissus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.