suffusus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of suffundō (“suffuse; blush”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sʊfˈfuː.sʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [sufˈfuː.s̬us]
Participle
suffūsus (feminine suffūsa, neuter suffūsum); first/second-declension participle
- poured below, into or upon, overspread, suffused, having been poured below, into or upon, overspread or suffused
- tinged, imbued, stained, colored, having been tinged, imbued, stained or colored
- (of blushes) reddened, blushed, suffused, colored, having been reddened, blushed, suffused or colored; bashful, modest, shamefaced
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | suffūsus | suffūsa | suffūsum | suffūsī | suffūsae | suffūsa | |
| genitive | suffūsī | suffūsae | suffūsī | suffūsōrum | suffūsārum | suffūsōrum | |
| dative | suffūsō | suffūsae | suffūsō | suffūsīs | |||
| accusative | suffūsum | suffūsam | suffūsum | suffūsōs | suffūsās | suffūsa | |
| ablative | suffūsō | suffūsā | suffūsō | suffūsīs | |||
| vocative | suffūse | suffūsa | suffūsum | suffūsī | suffūsae | suffūsa | |
Synonyms
- (shamefaced): pudēns, pudibundus, pudīcus, pudōrātus, pudōrōsus
References
- “suffusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “suffusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "suffusus", 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)
- suffusus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.