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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of dēfīgō.
Participle
dēfīxus (feminine dēfīxa, neuter dēfīxum); first/second-declension participle
- stuck, thrust (weapon)
- fastened, having been fastened
- attached, having been attached
- bewitched, having been bewitched
- focused, having been focused
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.494–495:
- Haec dum Dardaniō Aenēae mīranda videntur
dum stupet obtūtūque haeret dēfīxus in ūnō- While Aeneas gazes these wondrous of Dardanian , as amazed, his gaze persists, having become focused on a single
- dumbfounded, having been dumbfounded
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “defixus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- defixus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be deep in thought: in cogitatione defixum esse