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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of concutiō (“shake violently (or together); agitate”).
Participle
concussus (feminine concussa, neuter concussum); first/second-declension participle
- shaken violently (or together), having been shaken violently
- agitated, having been agitated
- terrified, alarmed, horrified, horror-struck or horror-stricken, panic-stricken, deeply troubled; having been terrified, etc.
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.666:
- Concussam bacchātur Fāma per urbem.
- Rumor runs riot through the horror-stricken city.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “concussus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “concussus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- concussus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.