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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of metō
Participle
messus (feminine messa, neuter messum); first/second-declension participle
- cut, mowed, reaped
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “messus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “messus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) the crop is in the blade: messis in herbis est (Liv. 25. 15)
- (ambiguous) your crop is still green, i.e. you are still far from your ambition: adhuc tua messis in herba est (proverb.)
- (ambiguous) a good harvest: messis opīma (opp. ingrata)