infixus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of īnfīgō.

Participle

īnfīxus (feminine īnfīxa, neuter īnfīxum); first/second-declension participle

1. fastened, fixed, implanted
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.4-5:

     [...] haerent īnfīxī pectore voltūs / verbaque [...].

     [Aeneas’s good] looks and [fine] words were now fixed in [Dido’s] heart.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	īnfīxus	īnfīxa	īnfīxum		īnfīxī	īnfīxae	īnfīxa
Genitive	īnfīxī	īnfīxae	īnfīxī		īnfīxōrum	īnfīxārum	īnfīxōrum
Dative	īnfīxō		īnfīxō		īnfīxīs
Accusative	īnfīxum	īnfīxam	īnfīxum		īnfīxōs	īnfīxās	īnfīxa
Ablative	īnfīxō	īnfīxā	īnfīxō		īnfīxīs
Vocative	īnfīxe	īnfīxa	īnfīxum		īnfīxī	īnfīxae	īnfīxa

Descendants

• Aromanian: nhiptu
• English: infix
• French: infixe
• Italian: infisso
• Portuguese: infixo
• Romanian: înfipt, infix
• Spanish: infijo

References

• “infixus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “infixus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• infixus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the fixed stars: sidera certis locis infixa
    
  • a thing is deeply impressed on the mind: aliquid in animo haeret, penitus insedit or infixum est
    
  • grief has struck deep into his soul: dolor infixus animo haeret (Phil. 2. 26)