mixtus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *mikstos. Perfect passive participle of misceō (“mix”).

Pronunciation

Participle

mixtus (feminine mixta, neuter mixtum); first/second-declension participle

  1. mixed, having been mixed; blended, mingled, combined
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.145–146:
      [...] īnstauratque chorōs, mixtīque altāria circum
      Crētēsque Dryopēsque fremunt pictīque Agathyrsī; [...].
      [Apollo] renews the dance while, mingled ’round the altars, Cretans and Dryopes, and painted Agathyrsians chant; [...].
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.247–248:
      tunc ego rēgnābam, patiēns cum terrā deōrum
      esset, et hūmānīs nūmina mixta locīs
      then I was reigning, when the earth was fit for gods,
      and divinities mingled in the places of men

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative mixtus mixta mixtum mixtī mixtae mixta
genitive mixtī mixtae mixtī mixtōrum mixtārum mixtōrum
dative mixtō mixtae mixtō mixtīs
accusative mixtum mixtam mixtum mixtōs mixtās mixta
ablative mixtō mixtā mixtō mixtīs
vocative mixte mixta mixtum mixtī mixtae mixta

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Catalan: mixt
  • → English: mixt (partially)
  • → French: mixte
  • Galician: mesto, mestas; misto
  • Italian: misto
  • Portuguese: misto, mixto
  • → Romanian: mixt
  • Spanish: mesto, mesta, mixto

References

  • “mixtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mixtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "mixtus", 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)
  • mixtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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