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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of diffundō.
Participle
diffūsus (feminine diffūsa, neuter diffūsum, adverb diffūsē); first/second-declension participle
- diffused or spread (throughout)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “diffusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “diffusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- diffusus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a wide-spread error: error longe lateque diffusus
- to have no coherence, connection: diffusum, dissipatum esse