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

Adjective

spissus (feminine spissa, neuter spissum, comparative spissior, superlative spississimus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. thick, close, compact, dense, crowded
  2. slow, tardy, late
  3. 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

Derived terms

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
  1. “spesso” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
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