convictus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of convincō.

Participle

convictus (feminine convicta, neuter convictum); first/second-declension participle

1. convinced
2. conquered
3. convicted

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	convictus	convicta	convictum		convictī	convictae	convicta
Genitive	convictī	convictae	convictī		convictōrum	convictārum	convictōrum
Dative	convictō		convictō		convictīs
Accusative	convictum	convictam	convictum		convictōs	convictās	convicta
Ablative	convictō	convictā	convictō		convictīs
Vocative	convicte	convicta	convictum		convictī	convictae	convicta

Descendants

• Catalan: convicte
• English: convict
• Portuguese: convicto
• Romanian: convict
• Spanish: convicto

Etymology 2

Derived from convīctum, supine of convīvō (“I live together, I banquet”).

Noun

convīctus m (genitive convīctūs); fourth declension

1. communal life
2. banquet

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	convīctus	convīctūs
Genitive	convīctūs	convīctuum
Dative	convīctuī	convīctibus
Accusative	convīctum	convīctūs
Ablative	convīctū	convīctibus
Vocative	convīctus	convīctūs

Descendants

• → Italian: convitto

References

• “convictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “convictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• convictus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be convicted by some one's evidence: testibus teneri, convictum esse