fessus

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French

Adjective

fessus

  1. masculine plural of fessu

Latin

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative fessus fessa fessum fessī fessae fessa
genitive fessī fessae fessī fessōrum fessārum fessōrum
dative fessō fessae fessō fessīs
accusative fessum fessam fessum fessōs fessās fessa
ablative fessō fessā fessō fessīs
vocative fesse fessa fessum fessī fessae fessa

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Italian: fesso

References