fixus

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Latin

Etymology

    Perfect passive participle of fīgō (“fasten, fix”).

    Participle

    fīxus (feminine fīxa, neuter fīxum); first/second-declension participle

    1. unwavering
      Synonyms: prōmptus, indubius, certus
      Antonyms: incertus, dubius, suspensus, vagus, anceps
    2. constant
    3. immovable, fixed, fastened
      Synonyms: stabilis, statīvus

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative fīxus fīxa fīxum fīxī fīxae fīxa
    genitive fīxī fīxae fīxī fīxōrum fīxārum fīxōrum
    dative fīxō fīxae fīxō fīxīs
    accusative fīxum fīxam fīxum fīxōs fīxās fīxa
    ablative fīxō fīxā fīxō fīxīs
    vocative fīxe fīxa fīxum fīxī fīxae fīxa

    Descendants

    • Italo-Dalmatian:
      • Istriot: feîsso
      • Italian: fisso
      • Sicilian: fissu
      • Venetan: fiso
    • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fictus
    Borrowings

    References

    • “fixus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “fixus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "fixus", 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)
    • fixus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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