defessus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect active participle of dēfetīscor.

Pronunciation

Adjective

dēfessus (feminine dēfessa, neuter dēfessum, comparative defessior, superlative defessissimus); first/second-declension adjective

  1. exhausted, tired, fainted
    Synonyms: fessus, frāctus, cōnfectus, languidus
    Antonym: vīvus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative dēfessus dēfessa dēfessum dēfessī dēfessae dēfessa
genitive dēfessī dēfessae dēfessī dēfessōrum dēfessārum dēfessōrum
dative dēfessō dēfessae dēfessō dēfessīs
accusative dēfessum dēfessam dēfessum dēfessōs dēfessās dēfessa
ablative dēfessō dēfessā dēfessō dēfessīs
vocative dēfesse dēfessa dēfessum dēfessī dēfessae dēfessa

Derived terms

References

  • “defessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “defessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • defessus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
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