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) IPA(key): /ˈspis.sus/
Adjective
spissus (feminine spissa, neuter spissum); first/second declension
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
- comparative: spissior, superlative: spississimus
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, 1883–1887)
- spissus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- ↑ “spesso” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
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