demissus

Perfect passive participle of dēmittō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /deːˈmis.sus/, [d̪eːˈmɪs̠ːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈmis.sus/, [d̪eˈmisːus]

dēmissus (feminine dēmissa, neuter dēmissum); first/second-declension participle

1. dropped, lowered, downcast
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.561:

     Tum breviter Dīdō, voltum dēmissa, profātur: [...].

     Thereupon Dido, having lowered [her] gaze, answers briefly: [...].
     (Dido may be looking downward from her elevated throne; she could also be speaking “with downcast face” to avoid eye contact, understood as an expression of modesty.)

2. descended
3. slanting

First/second-declension adjective.

dēmissus (feminine dēmissa, neuter dēmissum, comparative dēmissior); first/second-declension adjective

1. low; low-lying

   Antonyms: altus, sublimis

2. disheartened, downhearted, downcast, crestfallen, dejected, dispirited

   Synonym: frāctus

3. humble, poor

   Synonyms: modicus, ignōbilis, humilis, abiectus, sordidus

   Antonyms: altus, sublimis, excelsus

First/second-declension adjective.

• “demissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “demissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• demissus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be cast down, discouraged, in despair: animo esse humili, demisso (more strongly animo esse fracto, perculso et abiecto) (Att. 3. 2)