Talk:sessum
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What's the real passive perfect participle for sedeo, sessum or sessus? The conjugation box on sedeō gives sessum as the passive perfect participle, as does the entry for sessum. However, if you take a glance at the sessus entry, it reads: Perfect passive participle of sedeō (“sit”).
What even is going on here? I find a few more things unusual. For example, sessus is a fourth declension noun, in addition to a participle. Am I missing something? I thought only supines like dictū can be fourth declension! According to my Latin textbook, Ecce Romani, sedeō doesn't even have a passive perfect participle, due to it being an intransitive verb. Sedeō is defined as: "to sit". You can't sit something, can you? I have a feeling that I'm missing out on something, perhaps somebody can clear things up - and possibly clean up the linked entries if necessary? Johnny Shiz (talk) 20:52, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
- @Johnny Shiz The actual participle is sessus, no questions asked. Past participles in Latin are always 1/2 declension adjectives. I can't say anything about the claim that there are no masculine or feminine forms, but it needs investigating. There is also a 4th declension suffix -tus, whose nominative singular form happens to be the same as the participle's. Lots of nouns are formed from verbs with that suffix so there's nothing unusual about that. —Rua (mew) 17:12, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
This seems to have been cleaned up at some point in the last 3 years. This, that and the other (talk) 11:01, 19 April 2022 (UTC)