compressus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of comprimō.

Participle

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

1. compressed, restrained, repressed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	compressus	compressa	compressum		compressī	compressae	compressa
genitive	compressī	compressae	compressī		compressōrum	compressārum	compressōrum
dative	compressō	compressae	compressō		compressīs
accusative	compressum	compressam	compressum		compressōs	compressās	compressa
ablative	compressō	compressā	compressō		compressīs
vocative	compresse	compressa	compressum		compressī	compressae	compressa

References

• “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)