densus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”); related to Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús, “hairy, shaggy, dense”).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

dēnsus (feminine dēnsa, neuter dēnsum, comparative dēnsior, superlative dēnsissimus, adverb dēnsē); first/second-declension adjective

dense, compact
Synonyms: stīpātus, crēber
crowded, close
frequent

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter	masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular			plural
nominative	dēnsus	dēnsa	dēnsum	dēnsī	dēnsae	dēnsa
genitive	dēnsī	dēnsae	dēnsī	dēnsōrum	dēnsārum	dēnsōrum
dative	dēnsō	dēnsae	dēnsō	dēnsīs
accusative	dēnsum	dēnsam	dēnsum	dēnsōs	dēnsās	dēnsa
ablative	dēnsō	dēnsā	dēnsō	dēnsīs
vocative	dēnse	dēnsa	dēnsum	dēnsī	dēnsae	dēnsa

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Catalan: dens
Dalmatian: dais
→ Galician: denso
→ Italian: denso
→ Middle French: dense
- French: dense
  - → Romanian: dens
- → English: dense
Megleno-Romanian: des
→ Portuguese: denso
Romanian: des
→ Spanish: denso
→ Welsh: dwys

References

“densus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“densus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
densus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.