obsessus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of obsideō.
Participle
obsessus (feminine obsessa, neuter obsessum); first/second-declension participle
- inhabited
- besieged
- circa 100-110, Tacitus, Histories: Book 4:
- Obsessos hinc fides, inde egestas inter decus ac flagitium distrahebant.
- The ties of loyalty on the one hand, and the necessities of famine on the other, kept the besieged wavering between the alternatives of glory and infamy.
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- obsessed
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | obsessus | obsessa | obsessum | obsessī | obsessae | obsessa | |
| Genitive | obsessī | obsessae | obsessī | obsessōrum | obsessārum | obsessōrum | |
| Dative | obsessō | obsessō | obsessīs | ||||
| Accusative | obsessum | obsessam | obsessum | obsessōs | obsessās | obsessa | |
| Ablative | obsessō | obsessā | obsessō | obsessīs | |||
| Vocative | obsesse | obsessa | obsessum | obsessī | obsessae | obsessa | |
Descendants
- Spanish: obseso
References
- “obsessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obsessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obsessus 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)
- obsessus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette