congressus

== Latin == === Etymology 1 === Perfect active participle of congredior. ==== Participle ==== congressus (feminine congressa, neuter congressum); first/second-declension participle having approached, visited, accosted having fought ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 2 === From congredior + -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Noun ==== congressus m (genitive congressūs); fourth declension meeting, assembly, conference Synonyms: concilium, coetus, concursus, cōntiō, coitiō, conventus congress (all meanings) carnal union, copulation, sex ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== === References === “congressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “congressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "congressus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “congressus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.