spissus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *spissos, from Proto-Indo-European *spidtos (“thick and slow”), cognate to Ancient Greek σπιδνός (spidnós, “dense, solid”), Latvian spiedu (“to compress, to press”), Lithuanian spisti (“to begin to swarm (of bees), gather”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈspɪs.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈspis.sus] === Adjective === spissus (feminine spissa, neuter spissum, comparative spissior, superlative spississimus); first/second-declension adjective thick, close, compact, dense, crowded slow, tardy, late hard, difficult ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “thick, dense”): dīlūtus ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “spissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “spissus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "spissus", 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) “spissus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.