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See also: Crassus
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain; suggested to be from Proto-Indo-European *kert- (“to wind”),[1] and compared to crātis (“wickerwork”), however this is semantically doubtful. Possibly connected to grossus (“coarse; thick”), also of unknown origin.[2]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkras.sus/, [ˈkräs̠ːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkras.sus/, [ˈkräsːus]
Adjective[edit]
crassus (feminine crassa, neuter crassum, comparative crassior, superlative crassissimus); first/second-declension adjective
- dense, thick, solid
- fat, gross, plump
- aquae crassae ― deep waters, swollen waters
- fīlum crassum ― a thick thread
- homō crassus ― a fat person, a plump person
- toga crassa ― a thick toga
- (of a liquid) concentrated, thick; turgid
- (of the weather) heavy, thick, dense; murky
- (figuratively) crass, stupid, dull, stolid
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | crassus | crassa | crassum | crassī | crassae | crassa | |
| Genitive | crassī | crassae | crassī | crassōrum | crassārum | crassōrum | |
| Dative | crassō | crassō | crassīs | ||||
| Accusative | crassum | crassam | crassum | crassōs | crassās | crassa | |
| Ablative | crassō | crassā | crassō | crassīs | |||
| Vocative | crasse | crassa | crassum | crassī | crassae | crassa | |
Synonyms[edit]
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Descendants[edit]
- Vulgar Latin: *grassus
- Catalan: gras
- Aromanian: gras
- Friulian: gras
- Galician: graxo
- Italian: grasso
- Lombard: grass
- Occitan: grais
- Old French: gras
- French: gras
- Piedmontese: grass
- Portuguese: graxo
- Romanian: gras
- Romansch: grass
- Sardinian: grassu
- Sicilian: ncrasciu, grassu, rassu
- Spanish: graso
- Venetian: graso, gras
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *grassia
- Catalan: cras
- Old French: cras
- → German: krass
- → Hunsrik: krass
- → Italian: crasso
- → Portuguese: crasso
- → Romanian: cras
- → Spanish: craso
References[edit]
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “kert-, kerət-, krāt-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 584
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “crassus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 141
- “crassus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “crassus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- crassus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- with no intelligence or skill: crassa or pingui Minerva (proverb.)
- with no intelligence or skill: crassa or pingui Minerva (proverb.)
- “crassus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “crassus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray