crassus

See also: Crassus

Latin

Etymology

From Old Latin cartsus, from Proto-Italic *kartsus, from Proto-Indo-European *kr̥t-sú-s, from *kert- (“to weave, twist together”). See also crātis (“wickerwork”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkras.sus/, [ˈkräs̠ːʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkras.sus/, [ˈkräsːus]

Adjective

crassus (feminine crassa, neuter crassum, comparative crassior, superlative crassissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. dense, thick, solid
2. fat, gross, plump
3. (of a liquid) concentrated, thick; turgid
4. (of the weather) heavy, thick, dense; murky
5. (figuratively) crass, stupid, dull, stolid

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	crassus	crassa	crassum		crassī	crassae	crassa
Genitive	crassī	crassae	crassī		crassōrum	crassārum	crassōrum
Dative	crassō		crassō		crassīs
Accusative	crassum	crassam	crassum		crassōs	crassās	crassa
Ablative	crassō	crassā	crassō		crassīs
Vocative	crasse	crassa	crassum		crassī	crassae	crassa

Synonyms

• (dense, thick): densus, pinguis

Derived terms

• crassē
• crassēdo
• crassēscō
• crassificō
• crassitās
• crassities
• crassitūdō
• crassivēnius
• crassō
• crassundia
• incrassō

 

Related terms

• crassāmen
• crassāmentum
• crassificātiō

Descendants

• Vulgar Latin: *grassus
  • Catalan: gras
  • Aromanian: gras
  • Friulian: gras
  • Galician: graxo
  • Italian: grasso
  • Lombard: grass
  • Occitan: grais
  • Old French: gras
    • French: gras
  • Piedmontese: grass
  • Portuguese: graxo
  • Romanian: gras
  • Romansch: grass
  • Sardinian: grassu
  • Sicilian: ncrasciu, grassu, rassu
  • Spanish: graso
  • Venetian: graso, gras
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *grassia
    • Catalan: greix
    • Galician: graxa
    • Occitan: graissa
    • Old French: gresse
      • French: graisse
      • → English: grease
    • Portuguese: graxa
    • Spanish: grasa
• Catalan: cras
• Italian: crasso
• Old French: cras
  • ⇒ French: crasse
  • → Middle English: cras
    • English: crass
• → German: krass
• → Hunsrik: krass
• → Portuguese: crasso
• → Romanian: cras
• → Spanish: craso

References

• “crassus”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• “crassus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crassus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • with no intelligence or skill: crassa or pingui Minerva (proverb.)
    
• “crassus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “crassus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray