concretus

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Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of concernō.

Participle

concrētus (feminine concrēta, neuter concrētum); first/second-declension participle

  1. mingled

Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle of concrescō.

Adjective

concrētus (feminine concrēta, neuter concrētum); first/second-declension participle

  1. condensed, thick, matted
  2. 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.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative concrētus concrēta concrētum concrētī concrētae concrēta
genitive concrētī concrētae concrētī concrētōrum concrētārum concrētōrum
dative concrētō concrētae concrētō concrētīs
accusative concrētum concrētam concrētum concrētōs concrētās concrēta
ablative concrētō concrētā concrētō concrētīs
vocative concrēte concrēta concrētum concrētī concrētae concrēta
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.