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/, [ˈs̠pɪs̠ːʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspis.sus/, [ˈspisːus]
Adjective
spissus (feminine spissa, neuter spissum, comparative spissior, superlative spississimus); first/second-declension adjective
- thick, close, compact, dense, crowded
- slow, tardy, late
- hard, difficult
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| 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 | |
Antonyms
- (thick, dense): dīlūtus
Derived terms
- conspissātiō
- conspissātiō
- conspissātus
- inspissātus
- spissāmentum
- spissātiō
- spissātus
- spissē
- spissescō
- spissigradus
- spissitās
- spissitūdō
- spissō
- subspissus
Descendants
- → Albanian: shpeshë
- Aromanian: spes
- Asturian: espesu
- Catalan: espès
- French: épais
- Galician: espeso
- Italian: spesso
- Norman: épeis
- Occitan: espés
- Portuguese: espesso
- Romansch: spess
- Sicilian: spissu
- Spanish: espeso
- Venetian: spes
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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