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French
Etymology
Inherited from Latin assessus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
assis (feminine assise, masculine plural assis, feminine plural assises)
- sat, sat down, seated
Derived terms
Participle
assis (feminine assise, masculine plural assis, feminine plural assises)
- past participle of asseoir
Verb
assis
- first/second-person plural past historic of asseoir
Participle
assis m pl
- masculine plural of assi
Further reading
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
assis m (genitive assis); third declension
- Alternative form of axis (“axle”).
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
assis
- genitive singular of as
References
- “assis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- assis 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)
- assis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Middle English
Noun
assis
- Alternative form of assise