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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of īnfīgō.
Participle
īnfīxus (feminine īnfīxa, neuter īnfīxum); first/second-declension participle
- fastened, fixed, implanted
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.4-5:
- haerent īnfīxī pectore voltūs / verbaque .
- looks and words were now fixed in heart.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “infixus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “infixus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- infixus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the fixed stars: sidera certis locis infixa
- a thing is deeply impressed on the mind: aliquid in animo haeret, penitus insedit or infixum est
- grief has struck deep into his soul: dolor infixus animo haeret (Phil. 2. 26)