mersus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of mergō

Participle

mersus (feminine mersa, neuter mersum); first/second-declension participle

1. plunged, drowned

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	mersus	mersa	mersum		mersī	mersae	mersa
Genitive	mersī	mersae	mersī		mersōrum	mersārum	mersōrum
Dative	mersō		mersō		mersīs
Accusative	mersum	mersam	mersum		mersōs	mersās	mersa
Ablative	mersō	mersā	mersō		mersīs
Vocative	merse	mersa	mersum		mersī	mersae	mersa

Descendants

• Aromanian: njersu
• Italian: merso
• Romanian: mers

References

• “mersus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mersus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers