aggestus

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From aggerō.

Pronunciation

Noun

aggestus m (genitive aggestūs); fourth declension

  1. an accumulation, a piling up, act of bringing
  2. a mound, dike, or elevation formed like a dike; an earthen bank

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative aggestus aggestūs
genitive aggestūs aggestuum
dative aggestuī aggestibus
accusative aggestum aggestūs
ablative aggestū aggestibus
vocative aggestus aggestūs

Descendants

  • Romanian: agest

References

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