diffusus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of diffundō.

Participle

diffūsus (feminine diffūsa, neuter diffūsum, adverb diffūsē); first/second-declension participle

  1. diffused or spread (throughout)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative diffūsus diffūsa diffūsum diffūsī diffūsae diffūsa
Genitive diffūsī diffūsae diffūsī diffūsōrum diffūsārum diffūsōrum
Dative diffūsō diffūsō diffūsīs
Accusative diffūsum diffūsam diffūsum diffūsōs diffūsās diffūsa
Ablative diffūsō diffūsā diffūsō diffūsīs
Vocative diffūse diffūsa diffūsum diffūsī diffūsae diffūsa

Descendants
  • Catalan: difús
  • English: diffuse
  • French: diffus
  • Italian: diffuso
  • Portuguese: difuso
  • Spanish: difuso

References
  • “diffusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “diffusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • diffusus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a wide-spread error: error longe lateque diffusus
    • to have no coherence, connection: diffusum, dissipatum esse
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