congressus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect participle of congredior

Participle

congressus (feminine congressa, neuter congressum); first/second-declension participle

1. approached, visited, accosted
2. fought

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	congressus	congressa	congressum		congressī	congressae	congressa
Genitive	congressī	congressae	congressī		congressōrum	congressārum	congressōrum
Dative	congressō		congressō		congressīs
Accusative	congressum	congressam	congressum		congressōs	congressās	congressa
Ablative	congressō	congressā	congressō		congressīs
Vocative	congresse	congressa	congressum		congressī	congressae	congressa

Noun

congressus m (genitive congressūs); fourth declension

1. meeting, assembly, conference

   Synonyms: concilium, coetus, concursus, cōntiō, coitiō, conventus

2. congress (all meanings)
3. carnal union, copulation, sex

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	congressus	congressūs
Genitive	congressūs	congressuum
Dative	congressuī	congressibus
Accusative	congressum	congressūs
Ablative	congressū	congressibus
Vocative	congressus	congressūs

Descendants

• Dutch: congres
• English: congress
• French: congrès
  • → Ottoman Turkish: قونغره (kongre)
    • Turkish: kongre
• German: Kongress
• Italian: congresso
• Latvian: kongress
• Portuguese: congresso
• Russian: конгре́сс (kongréss)
• Spanish: congreso

References

• “congressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “congressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• congressus 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)
• congressus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to shun society: hominum coetus, congressus fugere
    
  • to obtain an audience of some one: in congressum alicuius venire