compressus

Latin

Etymology

    Perfect passive participle of comprimō.

    Participle

    compressus (feminine compressa, neuter compressum); first/second-declension participle

    1. compressed, restrained, repressed

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative compressus compressa compressum compressī compressae compressa
    genitive compressī compressae compressī compressōrum compressārum compressōrum
    dative compressō compressae compressō compressīs
    accusative compressum compressam compressum compressōs compressās compressa
    ablative compressō compressā compressō compressīs
    vocative compresse compressa compressum compressī compressae compressa

    Descendants

    • Translingual: Compressidens

    References

    • compressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • compressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • compressus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • to sit with folded arms; to be inactive: compressis manibus sedere (proverb.) (Liv. 7. 13)