spissus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *spissos, from Proto-Indo-European *spidtos (“thick and slow”), cognate to Ancient Greek σπιδνός (spidnós, “dense, solid”), Latvian spiedu (“I compress, I press”), Lithuanian spisti (“to begin to swarm (of bees), gather”).[1][2]

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
  • (antonym(s) of “thick, dense”): dīlūtus

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. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 581
  2. “spesso” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
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