congressus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Perfect participle of congredior
Participle[edit]
congressus (feminine congressa, neuter congressum); first/second-declension participle
Declension[edit]
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[edit]
congressus m (genitive congressūs); fourth declension
- meeting, assembly, conference
- congress (all meanings)
- carnal union, copulation, sex
Declension[edit]
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[edit]
References[edit]
- “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
- to shun society: hominum coetus, congressus fugere