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Latin
Etymology
From aggerō.
Pronunciation
Noun
aggestus m (genitive aggestūs); fourth declension
- an accumulation, a piling up, act of bringing
- a mound, dike, or elevation formed like a dike; an earthen bank
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
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.