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Latin
Etymology
Perfect participle of conlābor
Participle
conlāpsus (feminine conlāpsa, neuter conlāpsum); first/second-declension participle
- Alternative form of collāpsus: collapsed, fallen in, having collapsed or fallen
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.663–665:
- ferrō / conlāpsam aspiciunt comitēs, ēnsemque cruōre / spūmantem, sparsāsque manūs.
- attendants see she has fallen on the sword, and its blade foams with blood, and her hands are bloodstained.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “conlapsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers