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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of licet (“is allowed, permitted”).
Pronunciation
Participle
licitus (feminine licita, neuter licitum); first/second-declension participle
- allowed, permitted, having been permitted.
- permissible
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “licitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “licitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- licitus 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)
- licitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.