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Ido
Verb
editus
- conditional of editar
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of ēdō (“bring forth; bring about”).
Pronunciation
Participle
ēditus (feminine ēdita, neuter ēditum); first/second-declension participle
- brought forth, having been brought forth; ejected, having been ejected, discharged, having been discharged
- produced, having been produced; begotten, having been begotten
- published, having been published, spread abroad, having been spread abroad
- related, having been related, told, having been told; disclosed, having been disclosed, announced, having been announced
- performed, having been performed, brought about, having been brought about
- lifted, having been lifted, elevated, having been elevated
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Adjective
ēditus (feminine ēdita, neuter ēditum, comparative ēditior, superlative ēditissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- set forth, heightened
- (of places) elevated, high, lofty
- (figuratively) superior
- circa 35–34 BC, Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Satirae 1.3, lines 107–110:
- nam fuit ante Helenam cunnus taeterrima belli // causa, sed ignotis perierunt mortibus illi, // quos Venerem incertam rapientis more ferarum // viribus editior caedebat ut in grege taurus.
- For before Helen’s time there existed a woman who was the dismal cause of war: but those fell by unknown deaths, whom pursuing uncertain venery, as the bull in the herd, the strongest slew. ― translation by: Christopher Smart (tr.), Theodore Alois Buckley (ed.), The Works of Horace (1863); literal gloss of “viribus editior” added by the Wiktionary contributor
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Noun
ēditus m (genitive ēditūs); fourth declension
- a voiding, defecation, excrement
- editus boum ― bulls’ shit
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
References
- “ēdĭtus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ēdĭtus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “editus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- editus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ēdĭtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 571/2.
- ēdĭtŭs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 571/2.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) heights, high ground: loca edita, superiora