expansus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of expandō.

Participle

expānsus (feminine expānsa, neuter expānsum); first/second-declension participle

1. expanded
2. explained

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	expānsus	expānsa	expānsum		expānsī	expānsae	expānsa
genitive	expānsī	expānsae	expānsī		expānsōrum	expānsārum	expānsōrum
dative	expānsō	expānsae	expānsō		expānsīs
accusative	expānsum	expānsam	expānsum		expānsōs	expānsās	expānsa
ablative	expānsō	expānsā	expānsō		expānsīs
vocative	expānse	expānsa	expānsum		expānsī	expānsae	expānsa

Descendants

• English: expanse
• Italian: espanso, spanso, spaso
• Portuguese: expanso
• Sicilian: spasu

References

• “expansus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• expansus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.