compressus

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Latin

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Etymology

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Perfect passive participle of comprimō.

Participle

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compressus (feminine compressa, neuter compressum); first/second-declension participle

  1. compressed, restrained, repressed

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

References

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  • compressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • compressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • compressus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to sit with folded arms; to be inactive: compressis manibus sedere (proverb.) (Liv. 7. 13)