fessus

fessus

1. masculine plural of fessu

Possibly for Proto-Italic *fassos, from pre-Italic *dʰH-t-tós, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeH- (“to fade, disappear”) (compare Old Irish ru-deda (“to vanish”), Old English demm (“harm”)), but this is uncertain due to both phonetic and semantic problems. Connected with Latin famēs, affatim, fatīscō, fatīgō.

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fessus (feminine fessa, neuter fessum, comparative fessior, superlative fessissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. tired, weary

   Synonyms: frāctus, cōnfectus, dēfessus, languidus

   Antonym: vīvus

   • O mater, ego tam fessa sum., Oh mother, I'm so tired.
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.265:

     ultro / hortantem et fessas ad pabula nota vocantem

     freely / calling them and exhorting the weary bees to eat their familiar food.

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.15:

     fessa resēdit humō

     Weary, she sat down upon the ground

2. weak, enfeebled

   Synonyms: dēbilis, aeger, languidus, fractus, tenuis, mollis, īnfirmus, inops

   Antonyms: praevalēns, fortis, potis, potēns, validus, strēnuus, compos

3. sick, diseased

   Synonyms: aeger, languidus, miser, īnfirmus, affectus

   Antonyms: sānus, salvus, validus, integer, intāctus, salūber

First/second-declension adjective.

• Fessōnia
• fessulus

• Italian: fesso

• “fessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fessus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fessus in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• "fessus", 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)
• fessus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • weary with travelling; way-worn: fessus de via
    
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “3. dhē-, dhə-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 239
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “fatīgō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 204–205