sessus

Latin

Etymology

sedeō (“to sit”) +‎ -tus (“action noun suffix”). Only once attested in Apuleius, but continued by most Romance varieties.

Noun

sessus m (genitive sessūs); fourth declension

1. a sit, sitting

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sessus	sessūs
Genitive	sessūs	sessuum
Dative	sessuī	sessibus
Accusative	sessum	sessūs
Ablative	sessū	sessibus
Vocative	sessus	sessūs

Synonyms

• sessiō

Related terms

• sedeō
• sessum

Descendants

• Catalan: ses
• >? Galician: cenzo
• Old French: ses (perh. crossed with sēdēs)
• Old Italian: sesso
• Aromanian: shes
• Romanian: șes
• Portuguese: sesso
• ⇒ Sardinian: assessu
• Spanish: sieso

References

• “sessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sessus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.