obsessus

Latin

Perfect passive participle of obsideō.

obsessus (feminine obsessa, neuter obsessum); first/second-declension participle

inhabited
besieged
- c. 100-110, Tacitus, Histories: Book 4‎:
  Obsessos hinc fides, inde egestas inter decus ac flagitium distrahebant.
  The ties of loyalty on the one hand, and the necessities of famine on the other, kept the besieged wavering between the alternatives of glory and infamy.
obsessed

First/second-declension adjective.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular			Plural
Nominative	obsessus	obsessa	obsessum	obsessī	obsessae	obsessa
Genitive	obsessī	obsessae	obsessī	obsessōrum	obsessārum	obsessōrum
Dative	obsessō	obsessae	obsessō	obsessīs
Accusative	obsessum	obsessam	obsessum	obsessōs	obsessās	obsessa
Ablative	obsessō	obsessā	obsessō	obsessīs
Vocative	obsesse	obsessa	obsessum	obsessī	obsessae	obsessa

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

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