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Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of concernō.
Participle
concrētus (feminine concrēta, neuter concrētum); first/second-declension participle
- mingled
Related terms
Etymology 2
Perfect passive participle of concrescō.
Adjective
concrētus (feminine concrēta, neuter concrētum); first/second-declension participle
- condensed, thick, matted
- hardened, solidified, stiffened; congealed, curdled, clotted
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.277–279:
- “ squālentem barbam et concrētōs sanguine crīnīs,
volneraque illa gerēns quae circum plūrima mūrōs
accēpit patriōs.”- “ unkempt beard and hair clotted with blood, and he bore the many wounds which he suffered round his ancestral walls.”
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “concretus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “concretus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- concretus 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)
- concretus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.