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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of ēripiō (“snatch away; rescue”).
Participle
ēreptus (feminine ērepta, neuter ēreptum); first/second-declension participle
- snatched away, having been snatched away
- rescued, having been rescued
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “ereptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ereptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ereptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.