compressus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of comprimō.
Participle
compressus (feminine compressa, neuter compressum); first/second-declension participle
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | compressus | compressa | compressum | compressī | compressae | compressa | |
| genitive | compressī | compressae | compressī | compressōrum | compressārum | compressōrum | |
| dative | compressō | compressae | compressō | compressīs | |||
| accusative | compressum | compressam | compressum | compressōs | compressās | compressa | |
| ablative | compressō | compressā | compressō | compressīs | |||
| vocative | compresse | compressa | compressum | compressī | compressae | compressa | |
Descendants
- Translingual: ⇒ Compressidens
References
- “compressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “compressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- compressus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to sit with folded arms; to be inactive: compressis manibus sedere (proverb.) (Liv. 7. 13)
- to sit with folded arms; to be inactive: compressis manibus sedere (proverb.) (Liv. 7. 13)