compressus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of comprimō.

Participle

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

1. compressed, restrained, repressed

Adjective

compressus (feminine compressa, neuter compressum, comparative compressior, superlative compressimus, adverb compressē); first/second-declension adjective

1. narrow, close

   Synonym: angustus

2. (medicine) costive, or bringing constipation

   Synonym: (Medieval Latin) cōnstīpātus

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

Descendants

• Translingual: ⇒ Compressidens

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *per-?

Proto-Indo-European *pres-der.

Proto-Italic *pres-

Latin premō

Latin comprimō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin compressus

From comprimō + -tus (forming action nouns).

Noun

compressus m sg (genitive compressūs); fourth declension

1. (rare) a pressing together, compression
   • c. 430 CE – c. 489 CE, Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae XVII:

     De loci sane turbarumque compressu, deque numerosis luminibus illatis, nimis anheli: simul et aestati nox adhuc proxima tacito clausos vapore torruerat; et si jam primo frigore tamen autumnalis aurorae detepescebat.

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2. a making love, embracing, copulation
   • c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitruo prologus.0.107–109:

     Is amare occepit Alcumenam clam virum
     usuramque eius corporis cepit sibi,
     et gravidam fecit is eam compressu suo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 189 BCE, Plautus, Truculentus 2.4.16–17:

     Nunc ad amicam decimo mense post Athenas Atticas
     viso, quam gravidam hic reliqui meo compressu, quid ea agat.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

Only attested in the ablative.

Declension

Fourth-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	compressus
genitive	compressūs
dative	compressuī
accusative	compressum
ablative	compressū
vocative	compressus

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)