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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of ēvincō
Participle
ēvictus (feminine ēvicta, neuter ēvictum); first/second-declension participle
- vanquished, conquered, overcome (thoroughly)
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.474–475:
- Ergō ubi concēpit furiās ēvicta dolōre / dēcrēvitque morī, .
- Therefore, when had been overcome by anguish, she conceived madness, and resolved to die.
- evicted
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “evictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “evictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers