confusus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The perfect passive participle of cōnfundere (“to pour together; to mix; to confuse”), from con- (“with, together”) + fundere (“to pour”), q.v.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /konˈfuː.sus/, [kõːˈfuːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /konˈfu.sus/, [koɱˈfuːs̬us]
Participle[edit]
cōnfūsus (feminine cōnfūsa, neuter cōnfūsum, comparative cōnfūsior, superlative cōnfūsissimus); first/second-declension participle
- mixed, mingled, having been poured together
- united, joined, having been combined
- confounded, confused, having been brought into disorder
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | cōnfūsus | cōnfūsa | cōnfūsum | cōnfūsī | cōnfūsae | cōnfūsa | |
Genitive | cōnfūsī | cōnfūsae | cōnfūsī | cōnfūsōrum | cōnfūsārum | cōnfūsōrum | |
Dative | cōnfūsō | cōnfūsō | cōnfūsīs | ||||
Accusative | cōnfūsum | cōnfūsam | cōnfūsum | cōnfūsōs | cōnfūsās | cōnfūsa | |
Ablative | cōnfūsō | cōnfūsā | cōnfūsō | cōnfūsīs | |||
Vocative | cōnfūse | cōnfūsa | cōnfūsum | cōnfūsī | cōnfūsae | cōnfūsa |
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “confusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “confusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- confusus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to arrange on strictly logical principles: ratione, eleganter (opp. nulla ratione, ineleganter, confuse) disponere aliquid
- to be confused: confusum, perturbatum esse
- to arrange on strictly logical principles: ratione, eleganter (opp. nulla ratione, ineleganter, confuse) disponere aliquid