foedans
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See also: födans
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Present participle of foedō
Participle[edit]
foedāns (genitive foedantis); third-declension one-termination participle
- making hideous, befouling, disfiguring, lacerating, spoiling, defiling
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.673:
- unguibus ōra soror foedāns et pectora pugnīs
- the [grieving] sister disfiguring her face with her fingernails, and [beating] her breast with her fists
(Aeneid line 4.673 repeats at 12.871; cf. 11.86. Note the poetic plurals: ora…pectora. See Arthur Stanley Pease, (1935), Publi Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Liber Quartus, pp. 517-519, for extensive classical references to similar behaviors.)
- the [grieving] sister disfiguring her face with her fingernails, and [beating] her breast with her fists
- unguibus ōra soror foedāns et pectora pugnīs
- Vergil, Aeneid, Book XII:
- infelix crinis scindit Iuturna solutos unguibus ora soror foedans
- The unhappy sister Juturna tore the loosened hair, defiling her face with her fingernails.
Declension[edit]
Third-declension participle.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | foedāns | foedantēs | foedantia | ||
| Genitive | foedantis | foedantium | |||
| Dative | foedantī | foedantibus | |||
| Accusative | foedantem | foedāns | foedantēs foedantīs |
foedantia | |
| Ablative | foedante foedantī1 |
foedantibus | |||
| Vocative | foedāns | foedantēs | foedantia | ||
1When used purely as an adjective.