diffusus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-

Proto-Italic *dis-

Latin dis-

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd-

Proto-Indo-European *-né-

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰunédti

Proto-Italic *hundō

Latin fundō

Latin diffundō

Latin diffūsus

Perfect passive participle of diffundō.

Participle

diffūsus (feminine diffūsa, neuter diffūsum, adverb diffūsē); first/second-declension participle

1. diffused or spread (throughout)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	diffūsus	diffūsa	diffūsum		diffūsī	diffūsae	diffūsa
genitive	diffūsī	diffūsae	diffūsī		diffūsōrum	diffūsārum	diffūsōrum
dative	diffūsō	diffūsae	diffūsō		diffūsīs
accusative	diffūsum	diffūsam	diffūsum		diffūsōs	diffūsās	diffūsa
ablative	diffūsō	diffūsā	diffūsō		diffūsīs
vocative	diffūse	diffūsa	diffūsum		diffūsī	diffūsae	diffūsa

Descendants

• Catalan: difús
• → English: diffuse
• French: diffus
• → German: diffus
• Italian: diffuso
• Portuguese: difuso
• Spanish: difuso

References

• “diffusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “diffusus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “diffusus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a wide-spread error: error longe lateque diffusus
    
  • to have no coherence, connection: diffusum, dissipatum esse