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compressus
compressus
Latin
Participle
compressus m (feminine compressa, neuter compressum); first/second declension
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | compressus | compressa | compressum | compressī | compressae | compressa | |
| genitive | compressī | compressae | compressī | compressōrum | compressārum | compressōrum | |
| dative | compressō | compressō | compressīs | ||||
| accusative | compressum | compressam | compressum | compressōs | compressās | compressa | |
| ablative | compressō | compressā | compressō | compressīs | |||
| vocative | compresse | compressa | compressum | compressī | compressae | compressa | |
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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “compressus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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)