Latin

Adjective

spissus m ‎(feminine spissa, neuter spissum); first/second declension

1. thick, close, compact, dense, crowded
2. slow, tardy, late
3. hard, difficult

Inflection

First/second declension.

• comparative: spissior, superlative: spississimus

Antonyms

• (thick, dense): dīlūtus

Derived terms

• spissē
• spissitūdō

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “spissus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

1. ↑ “spesso” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2