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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of suffundō (“suffuse; blush”).
Pronunciation
Participle
suffūsus (feminine suffūsa, neuter suffūsum); first/second-declension participle
- poured below, into or upon, overspread, suffused, having been poured below, into or upon, overspread or suffused
- tinged, imbued, stained, colored, having been tinged, imbued, stained or colored
- (of blushes) reddened, blushed, suffused, colored, having been reddened, blushed, suffused or colored; bashful, modest, shamefaced
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Synonyms
References
- “suffusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “suffusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- suffusus 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)
- suffusus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.