English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin prolapsus (collapsed), perfect passive participle of prōlābor.

Noun edit

prolapsus (countable and uncountable, plural prolapsi or prolapsuses)

  1. (medicine) prolapse

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for prolapsus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Esperanto edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

prolapsus

  1. conditional of prolapsi

Latin edit

Etymology edit

Perfect passive participle of prōlābor.

Participle edit

prōlāpsus (feminine prōlāpsa, neuter prōlāpsum); first/second-declension participle

  1. collapsed
  2. fell into ruin or the fallen

Declension edit

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative prōlāpsus prōlāpsa prōlāpsum prōlāpsī prōlāpsae prōlāpsa
Genitive prōlāpsī prōlāpsae prōlāpsī prōlāpsōrum prōlāpsārum prōlāpsōrum
Dative prōlāpsō prōlāpsō prōlāpsīs
Accusative prōlāpsum prōlāpsam prōlāpsum prōlāpsōs prōlāpsās prōlāpsa
Ablative prōlāpsō prōlāpsā prōlāpsō prōlāpsīs
Vocative prōlāpse prōlāpsa prōlāpsum prōlāpsī prōlāpsae prōlāpsa

Descendants edit

  • Catalan: prolapse
  • English: prolapse
  • German: Prolaps
  • Italian: prolasso
  • Spanish: prolapso

References edit

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