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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of dīripiō.
Participle
dīreptus (feminine dīrepta, neuter dīreptum); first/second-declension participle
- torn to shreds
- laid waste, pillaged, plundered, rifled, ravaged; having been pillaged, etc.
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.562–563:
- “ subiit dēserta Creūsa,
et dīrepta domus, et parvī cāsūs Iūlī.”- “ the thought of Creusa having been forsaken, and my home laid waste, and the misfortune of little Iulus.”
(As Troy falls Aeneas fears for the safety of his own family.)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
References
- “direptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “direptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- direptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.