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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek παράσιτος (parásitos, “person who eats at the table of another”).
Noun
parasītus m (genitive parasītī, feminine parasīta); second declension
- guest
- sponger, parasite, freeloader
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “parasitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “parasitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- parasitus 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)
- parasitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “parasitus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers