direptus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of dīripiō.

Participle

dīreptus (feminine dīrepta, neuter dīreptum); first/second-declension participle

  1. torn to shreds
  2. laid waste, pillaged, plundered, rifled, ravaged; having been pillaged, etc.
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.562–563:
      “[...] subiit dēserta Creūsa,
      et dīrepta domus, et parvī cāsūs Iūlī.”
      “[...] the thought of Creusa having been forsaken, and my home laid waste, and the misfortune of little Iulus.”
      (As Troy falls Aeneas fears for the safety of his own family.)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative dīreptus dīrepta dīreptum dīreptī dīreptae dīrepta
genitive dīreptī dīreptae dīreptī dīreptōrum dīreptārum dīreptōrum
dative dīreptō dīreptae dīreptō dīreptīs
accusative dīreptum dīreptam dīreptum dīreptōs dīreptās dīrepta
ablative dīreptō dīreptā dīreptō dīreptīs
vocative dīrepte dīrepta dīreptum dīreptī dīreptae dīrepta

Derived terms

References

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