fessus

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Adjective

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fessus

  1. masculine plural of fessu

Latin

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Etymology

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Possibly for Proto-Italic *fassos, from pre-Italic *dʰH-t-tós, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeH- (to fade, disappear) (compare Old Irish ru-deda (to vanish), Old English demm (harm)), but this is uncertain due to both phonetic and semantic problems. Connected with Latin famēs, affatim, fatīscō, fatīgō.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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fessus (feminine fessa, neuter fessum, comparative fessior, superlative fessissimus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. tired, weary
    Synonyms: frāctus, cōnfectus, dēfessus, languidus
    Antonym: vīvus
    • O mater, ego tam fessa sum., Oh mother, I'm so tired.
    • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.265:
      [] ultro / hortantem et fessas ad pabula nota vocantem
      [] freely / calling them and exhorting the weary bees to eat their familiar food.
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.15:
      fessa resēdit humō
      Weary, she sat down upon the ground
  2. weak, enfeebled
    Synonyms: dēbilis, aeger, languidus, fractus, tenuis, mollis, īnfirmus, inops
    Antonyms: praevalēns, fortis, potis, potēns, validus, strēnuus, compos
  3. sick, diseased
    Synonyms: aeger, languidus, miser, īnfirmus
    Antonyms: sānus, salvus, validus, integer, intāctus, salūber

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative fessus fessa fessum fessī fessae fessa
Genitive fessī fessae fessī fessōrum fessārum fessōrum
Dative fessō fessō fessīs
Accusative fessum fessam fessum fessōs fessās fessa
Ablative fessō fessā fessō fessīs
Vocative fesse fessa fessum fessī fessae fessa

Derived terms

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References

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  • fessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • fessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fessus in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • fessus 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)
  • fessus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • weary with travelling; way-worn: fessus de via
  • Pokorny, Julius (1959) “3. dhē-, dhə-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 239
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fatīgō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 204–205