spissus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *spidtos, cognate to Ancient Greek σπιδνός (spidnós, “dense, solid”) and Latvian spiedu (“I compress, I press”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈspis.sus/, [ˈs̠pɪs̠ːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspis.sus/, [ˈspisːus]
Adjective
spissus (feminine spissa, neuter spissum, comparative spissior, superlative spississimus); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | spissus | spissa | spissum | spissī | spissae | spissa | |
Genitive | spissī | spissae | spissī | spissōrum | spissārum | spissōrum | |
Dative | spissō | spissō | spissīs | ||||
Accusative | spissum | spissam | spissum | spissōs | spissās | spissa | |
Ablative | spissō | spissā | spissō | spissīs | |||
Vocative | spisse | spissa | spissum | spissī | spissae | spissa |
Antonyms
- (thick, dense): dīlūtus
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “spissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spissus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- spissus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.