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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of dēmergō.
Participle
dēmersus (feminine dēmersa, neuter dēmersum); first/second-declension participle
- submerged, overwhelmed
- immersed, plunged
- set
- buried
- plunged, dipped
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “demersus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “demersus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- demersus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be deeply in debt: aere alieno obrutum, demersum esse