sessus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
sedeō (“to sit”) + -tus (“action noun suffix”). Only once attested in Apuleius, but continued by most Romance varieties.
Noun edit
sessus m (genitive sessūs); fourth declension
Declension edit
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sessus | sessūs |
Genitive | sessūs | sessuum |
Dative | sessuī | sessibus |
Accusative | sessum | sessūs |
Ablative | sessū | sessibus |
Vocative | sessus | sessūs |
Synonyms edit
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Descendants edit
References edit
- “sessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sessus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.