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Latin
Etymology
From occidō + -uus.
Pronunciation
(Classical Latin) IPA(key): /okˈki.du.us/,
Adjective
occiduus (feminine occidua, neuter occiduum); first/second-declension adjective
- setting, westerly
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “occiduus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “occiduus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- occiduus 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)
- occiduus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.