foedans

See also: födans

Latin

Etymology

Present participle of foedō

Participle

foedāns (genitive foedantis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. making hideous, befouling, disfiguring, lacerating, spoiling, defiling
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.673:
      unguibus ōra soror foedāns et pectora pugnīs
      the [grieving] sister disfiguring her face with her fingernails, and [beating] her breast with her fists
      (Aeneid line 4.673 repeats at 12.871; cf. 11.86. Note the poetic plurals: ora…pectora. See Arthur Stanley Pease, (1935), Publi Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Liber Quartus, pp. 517-519, for extensive classical references to similar behaviors.)
    • Vergil, Aeneid, Book XII:
      infelix crinis scindit Iuturna solutos unguibus ora soror foedans
      The unhappy sister Juturna tore the loosened hair, defiling her face with her fingernails.

Declension

Third-declension participle.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative foedāns foedantēs foedantia
genitive foedantis foedantium
dative foedantī foedantibus
accusative foedantem foedāns foedantēs
foedantīs 		foedantia
ablative foedante
foedantī1 		foedantibus
vocative foedāns foedantēs foedantia

1When used purely as an adjective.

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