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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of dēflectō
Participle
dēflexus (feminine dēflexa, neuter dēflexum); first/second-declension participle
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c. 77 CE – 79 CE,
Pliny the Elder,
Naturalis Historia 2.120:
- Sunt etiam quidam peculiares quibusque gentibus venti, non ultra certum procedentes tractum, ut Atheniensibus sciron, paulo ab argeste deflexus, reliquae Graeciae ignotus. aliubi flatus idem Olympias vocatur.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “deflexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “deflexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers