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fessus
fessus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰH- (“to disappear”). Connected with famēs, affatim, fatīscō, fatīgō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfes.sus/
Adjective
fessus m (feminine fessa, neuter fessum); first/second declension
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | fessus | fessa | fessum | fessī | fessae | fessa | |
| genitive | fessī | fessae | fessī | fessōrum | fessārum | fessōrum | |
| dative | fessō | fessō | fessīs | ||||
| accusative | fessum | fessam | fessum | fessōs | fessās | fessa | |
| ablative | fessō | fessā | fessō | fessīs | |||
| vocative | fesse | fessa | fessum | fessī | fessae | fessa | |
comparative: fessior, superlative: fessissumus
Derived terms
- Fessōnia
- fessulus
References
- fessus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fessus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- FESSUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fessus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- weary with travelling; way-worn: fessus de via
- weary with travelling; way-worn: fessus de via
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 239