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Latin
Etymology
remordeō + -tus.
Pronunciation
Noun
remorsus m (genitive remorsūs); fourth declension
- (Late Latin) a biting in return
- (Medieval Latin, figurative) a gnawing, a pricking, remorse
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “remorsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “remorsus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
- remorsus 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)