spissus

From Proto-Italic *spissos, from Proto-Indo-European *spidtos (“thick and slow”), cognate to Ancient Greek σπιδνός (spidnós, “dense, solid”), Latvian spiedu (“I compress, I press”), Lithuanian spisti (“to begin to swarm (of bees), gather”).^[1][2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈspɪs.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈspis.sus]

spissus (feminine spissa, neuter spissum, comparative spissior, superlative spississimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. thick, close, compact, dense, crowded
2. slow, tardy, late
3. hard, difficult

First/second-declension adjective.

• (antonym(s) of “thick, dense”): dīlūtus

• “spissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “spissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "spissus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• spissus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.