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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *spissos, from Proto-Indo-European *spidtos (“thick and slow”), cognate to Ancient Greek σπιδνός (spidnós, “dense, solid”), Latvian spiedu (“I compress, I press”), Lithuanian spisti (“to begin to swarm (of bees), gather”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
spissus (feminine spissa, neuter spissum, comparative spissior, superlative spississimus); first/second-declension adjective
- thick, close, compact, dense, crowded
- slow, tardy, late
- hard, difficult
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “thick, dense”): dīlūtus
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “spissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “spissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spissus 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)
- spissus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 581
- ^ “spesso” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN