fixus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of fīgō (“fasten, fix”).

Participle

fīxus (feminine fīxa, neuter fīxum); first/second-declension participle

  1. unwavering
    Synonyms: prōmptus, indubius, certus
    Antonyms: incertus, dubius, suspensus, vagus, anceps
  2. constant
  3. immovable, fixed, fastened
    Synonyms: stabilis, statīvus

Declension

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Descendants
  • Italo-Dalmatian
    • Istriot: feîsso
    • Italian: fisso
    • Sicilian: fissu
  • Venetian: fiso
  • Vulgar Latin: *fictus
Borrowings

References
  • “fixus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fixus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fixus 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)
  • fixus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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