diffusus

Latin

Etymology

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.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	diffūsus	diffūsa	diffūsum		diffūsī	diffūsae	diffūsa
Genitive	diffūsī	diffūsae	diffūsī		diffūsōrum	diffūsārum	diffūsōrum
Dative	diffūsō		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
• 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