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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of perfundō.
Participle
perfūsus (feminine perfūsa, neuter perfūsum); first/second-declension participle
- perfused, suffused, soaked, overspread, coated, wet
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 2.221:
- “ perfūsus saniē vittās ātrōque venēnō .”
- “ his priestly bands soaked with blood and dark venom .”
- bathed, bedewed, sprinkled, moistened
- imbued
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “perfusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “perfusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- perfusus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.