adultus

== Esperanto == === Verb === adultus conditional of adulti == Latin == === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of adoleō (“burn, sacrifice”). ==== Participle ==== adultus (feminine adulta, neuter adultum); first/second-declension participle magnified or piled up with for sacrifice; burned, sacrificed, having been sacrificed consumed or destroyed by fire, having been destroyed by fire ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 2 === Perfect participle of adolēscō (“grow up”). ==== Participle ==== adultus (feminine adulta, neuter adultum); first/second-declension participle grown-up, matured, adult ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Descendants ===== → French: adulte (learned) → Italian: adulto → Romagnol: adùlt → Spanish: adulto === References === “adultus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “adultus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “adultus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “adultus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “adultus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin