spissus

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”).^[1][2]

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈspis.sus/, [ˈs̠pɪs̠ːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspis.sus/, [ˈspisːus]

Adjective

spissus (feminine spissa, neuter spissum, comparative spissior, superlative spississimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. thick, close, compact, dense, crowded
2. slow, tardy, late
3. hard, difficult

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	spissus	spissa	spissum		spissī	spissae	spissa
genitive	spissī	spissae	spissī		spissōrum	spissārum	spissōrum
dative	spissō	spissae	spissō		spissīs
accusative	spissum	spissam	spissum		spissōs	spissās	spissa
ablative	spissō	spissā	spissō		spissīs
vocative	spisse	spissa	spissum		spissī	spissae	spissa

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “thick, dense”): dīlūtus

Derived terms

• conspissātiō
• conspissātiō
• conspissātus
• inspissātus
• spissāmentum
• spissātiō
• spissātus
• spissē
• spissescō
• spissigradus
• spissitās
• spissitūdō
• spissō
• subspissus

 

Descendants

• → Albanian: shpeshë
• Aromanian: spes
• Asturian: espesu
• Catalan: espès
• French: èpès
• French: épais
• Galician: espeso
• Italian: spesso
• Norman: épeis
• Occitan: espés
• Portuguese: espesso
• Romansch: spess
• Sicilian: spissu
• Spanish: espeso
• Venetan: spes

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.

1. 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
2. “spesso” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN