sessus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]sedeō (“to sit”) + -tus (“action noun suffix”). Only once attested in Apuleius, but continued by most Romance varieties.
Noun
[edit]sessus m (genitive sessūs); fourth declension
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sessus | sessūs |
| genitive | sessūs | sessuum |
| dative | sessuī | sessibus |
| accusative | sessum | sessūs |
| ablative | sessū | sessibus |
| vocative | sessus | sessūs |
Synonyms
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[edit]References
[edit]- “sessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sessus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.