crassus
See also: Crassus
Latin
Etymology
Uncertain; suggested to be from Proto-Indo-European *kert- (“to wind”),[1] and compared to crātis (“wickerwork”), however this is semantically doubtful. Possibly connected to grossus (“coarse; thick”), also of unknown origin.[2]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkras.sus/, [ˈkräs̠ːʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkras.sus/, [ˈkräsːus]
Adjective
crassus (feminine crassa, neuter crassum, comparative crassior, superlative crassissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- dense, thick, solid
- fat, gross, plump
- (of a liquid) concentrated, thick; turgid
- (of the weather) heavy, thick, dense; murky
- (figuratively) crass, stupid, dull, stolid
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | crassus | crassa | crassum | crassī | crassae | crassa | |
| Genitive | crassī | crassae | crassī | crassōrum | crassārum | crassōrum | |
| Dative | crassō | crassō | crassīs | ||||
| Accusative | crassum | crassam | crassum | crassōs | crassās | crassa | |
| Ablative | crassō | crassā | crassō | crassīs | |||
| Vocative | crasse | crassa | crassum | crassī | crassae | crassa | |
Synonyms
- (dense, thick): densus, pinguis
Derived terms
- crassē
- crassēdo
- crassēscō
- crassificō
- crassitās
- crassities
- crassitūdō
- crassivēnius
- crassō
- crassundia
- incrassō
Related terms
- crassāmen
- crassāmentum
- crassificātiō
Descendants
- Vulgar Latin: *grassus
- Catalan: gras
- Aromanian: gras
- Friulian: gras
- Galician: graxo
- Italian: grasso
- Lombard: grass
- Occitan: grais
- Old French: gras
- French: gras
- Piedmontese: grass
- Portuguese: graxo
- Romanian: gras
- Romansch: grass
- Sardinian: grassu
- Sicilian: ncrasciu, grassu, rassu
- Spanish: graso
- Venetian: graso, gras
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *grassia
- Catalan: greix
- Galician: graxa
- Occitan: graissa
- Old French: gresse
- French: graisse
- → English: grease
- Portuguese: graxa
- Spanish: grasa
- Catalan: cras
- Italian: crasso
- Old French: cras
- ⇒ French: crasse
- → Middle English: cras
- English: crass
- → German: krass
- → Hunsrik: krass
- → Portuguese: crasso
- → Romanian: cras
- → Spanish: craso
References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959), “kert-, kerət-, krāt-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 584
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “crassus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 141
- “crassus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “crassus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- crassus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- with no intelligence or skill: crassa or pingui Minerva (proverb.)
- with no intelligence or skill: crassa or pingui Minerva (proverb.)
- “crassus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “crassus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray