defixus

Latin

Perfect passive participle of dēfīgō.

dēfīxus (feminine dēfīxa, neuter dēfīxum); first/second-declension participle

stuck, thrust (weapon)
fastened, having been fastened
attached, having been attached
bewitched, having been bewitched
focused, having been focused
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.494–495:
  Haec dum Dardaniō Aenēae mīranda videntur
  dum stupet obtūtūque haeret dēfīxus in ūnō
  While Aeneas gazes [at] these wondrous [scenes] of Dardanian [history], as [he stands] amazed, his gaze persists, having become focused on a single [thing]
dumbfounded, having been dumbfounded

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	dēfīxus	dēfīxa	dēfīxum	dēfīxī	dēfīxae	dēfīxa
genitive	dēfīxī	dēfīxae	dēfīxī	dēfīxōrum	dēfīxārum	dēfīxōrum
dative	dēfīxō	dēfīxae	dēfīxō	dēfīxīs
accusative	dēfīxum	dēfīxam	dēfīxum	dēfīxōs	dēfīxās	dēfīxa
ablative	dēfīxō	dēfīxā	dēfīxō	dēfīxīs
vocative	dēfīxe	dēfīxa	dēfīxum	dēfīxī	dēfīxae	dēfīxa

“defixus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
defixus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be deep in thought: in cogitatione defixum esse