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Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of commisceō.
Participle
commixtus (feminine commixta, neuter commixtum, adverb commixtim); first/second-declension participle
- mixed, mixed together, mixed up, mingled, intermingled, combined; having been mixed, etc.
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.160–161:
- Intereā magnō miscērī murmure caelum
incipit; īnsequitur commixtā grandine nimbus.- Meanwhile the sky becomes embroiled with a mighty rumble; a cloudburst follows, mixed with hail.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
Etymology 2
From commisceō + -tus.
Noun
commixtus m (genitive commixtūs); fourth declension
- (Late Latin) sexual intercourse
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
References
- “commixtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “commixtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- commixtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Souter, Alexander (1949) “commixtus”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D., 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 62