assus

From Proto-Italic *assos (“dried, roasted”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- (“to dry”); see Ancient Greek ἄζω (ázō, “to dry”) for more on the root and its reconstruction.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈas.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈas.sus]

assus (feminine assa, neuter assum); first/second-declension adjective

1. roasted, baked
2. dried, dry

   nūtrīx assa ― dry nurse

First/second-declension adjective.

• assō

• “assus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “assus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• assus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “assus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “assus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly