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Ido
Verb
deceptus
- conditional of deceptar
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of dēcipiō.
Participle
dēceptus (feminine dēcepta, neuter dēceptum); first/second-declension participle
- caught
- deceived, cheated, betrayed; having deceived, etc.
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.16-17:
- “ nē cui mē vinclō vellem sociāre iugālī,
postquam prīmus amor dēceptam morte fefellit, .”- “ it had not been my wish to join anyone in the marriage bond, after first love had deluded , having cheated by death, .”
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “deceptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “deceptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- deceptus 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)
- deceptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.