passus

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• IPA^(key): /ˈpæsəs/

passus (plural passuses)

1. A section of a long narrative poem; a canto

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.sus/, [ˈpäs̠ːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpas.sus/, [ˈpäsːus]

Perfect passive participle of pandō (“I spread out [to dry]”).

passus (feminine passa, neuter passum); first/second-declension participle

1. spread out
2. dried

   ūva passa ― raisin

First/second-declension adjective.

• Galician: pasa, paso
• Portuguese: passa
• Spanish: paso

From Proto-Italic *pat-s-tus, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread”). Equivalent to pandō +‎ -tus.

passus m (genitive passūs); fourth declension

1. step
2. pace
3. pace: a Roman unit of length equal to five Roman feet

Fourth-declension noun.

• *passō

Perfect active participle of patior.

passus (feminine passa, neuter passum); first/second-declension participle

1. suffered, having suffered, experienced, undergone
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.199:

     “Ō, passī graviōra! Dabit deus hīs quoque fīnem.”

     “Oh, [you who] have suffered heavier [woes]! God will grant an end to this, too.”

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.487–488:

     nec tamen ut prīmus maerē mala tālia passus;
     obruit ingentēs ista procella virōs

     Mourn not as though thou wert the first that had suffered such ills;
     the same storm has borne down many a mighty man.
     1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Translated by H. T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 31.

2. allowed, having allowed
3. permitted, having permitted

First/second-declension adjective.

• passīvus

• “1. passus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “2. passus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “passus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• passus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• passus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a mile away: a mille passibus
    
  • with dishevelled hair: passis crinibus
    
• “passus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• passus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “passus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Learned borrowing from Latin passus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpas.sus/

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• Rhymes: -assus
• Syllabification: pas‧sus

passus m inan

1. (literary) passage (section of text)

   Synonyms: akapit, fragment, ustęp

• passus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• passus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin passus (“step”).

passus c

1. A short section (e.g. a few connected words or sentences) of a written or oral presentation; a "passage" (in a book, etc.); an "item" (of a presentation)
2. A short elaboration on an item of a presentation not belonging to the main subject

• passus in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• passus in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• passus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

• pussas