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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *mikstos. Perfect passive participle of misceō (“mix”).
Pronunciation
Participle
mixtus (feminine mixta, neuter mixtum); first/second-declension participle
- mixed, having been mixed; blended, mingled, combined
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.145–146:
- īnstauratque chorōs, mixtīque altāria circum
Crētēsque Dryopēsque fremunt pictīque Agathyrsī; .- renews the dance while, mingled ’round the altars, Cretans and Dryopes, and painted Agathyrsians chant; .
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 1.247–248:
- tunc ego rēgnābam, patiēns cum terrā deōrum
esset, et hūmānīs nūmina mixta locīs- then I was reigning, when the earth was fit for gods,
and divinities mingled in the places of men
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “mixtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mixtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mixtus 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)
- mixtus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.