mersus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of mergō

Participle

mersus (feminine mersa, neuter mersum); first/second-declension participle

  1. plunged, drowned

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative mersus mersa mersum mersī mersae mersa
Genitive mersī mersae mersī mersōrum mersārum mersōrum
Dative mersō mersō mersīs
Accusative mersum mersam mersum mersōs mersās mersa
Ablative mersō mersā mersō mersīs
Vocative merse mersa mersum mersī mersae mersa

Descendants

  • Aromanian: njersu
  • Italian: merso
  • Romanian: mers

References

  • “mersus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “mersus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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