illapsus

Latin

Alternative forms

  • inlapsus

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From illābor (fall, slide) +‎ -tus (action noun-forming suffix).

Noun

illāpsus m (genitive illāpsūs); fourth declension

  1. a falling, gliding, or flowing in; an irruption
    umoris illapsus atque exitus
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    serpentino illapsu
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    gregis illapsu fremebundo territus
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Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative illāpsus illāpsūs
genitive illāpsūs illāpsuum
dative illāpsuī illāpsibus
accusative illāpsum illāpsūs
ablative illāpsū illāpsibus
vocative illāpsus illāpsūs
Descendants
  • English: illapse, illapsive

References

Etymology 2

Perfect active participle of illābor.

Participle

illāpsus (feminine illāpsa, neuter illāpsum); first/second-declension participle

  1. fallen, slipped, slid, glided, or flowed into
  2. fallen down, sunken down
  3. (figuratively) flowed into, penetrated
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

References

  • illapsus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • illapsus (inl) in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 769/3.