fixus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of fīgō (“fasten, fix”).
Participle
fīxus (feminine fīxa, neuter fīxum); first/second-declension participle
- unwavering
- Synonyms: prōmptus, indubius, certus
- Antonyms: incertus, dubius, suspensus, vagus, anceps
- constant
- immovable, fixed, fastened
- Synonyms: stabilis, statīvus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | fīxus | fīxa | fīxum | fīxī | fīxae | fīxa | |
Genitive | fīxī | fīxae | fīxī | fīxōrum | fīxārum | fīxōrum | |
Dative | fīxō | fīxō | fīxīs | ||||
Accusative | fīxum | fīxam | fīxum | fīxōs | fīxās | fīxa | |
Ablative | fīxō | fīxā | fīxō | fīxīs | |||
Vocative | fīxe | fīxa | fīxum | fīxī | fīxae | fīxa |
Descendants
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Istriot: feîsso
- Italian: fisso
- Sicilian: fissu
- Venetian: fiso
- → Cimbrian: fiss
- Vulgar Latin: *fictus
- Aromanian: hiptu
- Italian: fitto
- Romansch: fetg
- West Iberian
- Asturian: fitu
- Portuguese: fito
- Spanish: hito
- Borrowings
- → Asturian: fixe
- → Catalan: fix
- → Galician: fixo
- → Portuguese: fixo
- → Spanish: fijo
- → Swedish: fix
- → Old French: fixe
- French: fixe, fix
- → German: fix
- → Hungarian: fix
- → Turkish: fiks
- → German: fix
- Norman: fixe
- ⇒ Old French: *fixer
- Middle French: fixer
- French: fixer
- → Middle Dutch: fixeren
- Dutch: fixeren
- → Middle English: fixen
- English: fix, fixe (verb)
- → Dutch: fixen, fiksen
- Scots: fix
- English: fix, fixe (verb)
- Middle French: fixer
- French: fixe, fix
References
- “fixus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fixus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fixus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fixus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette