conlapsus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect participle of conlābor

Participle

conlāpsus (feminine conlāpsa, neuter conlāpsum); first/second-declension participle

1. Alternative form of collāpsus: collapsed, fallen in, having collapsed or fallen
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.663–665:

     [...] ferrō / conlāpsam aspiciunt comitēs, ēnsemque cruōre / spūmantem, sparsāsque manūs.

     [Dido’s] attendants see she has fallen on the sword, and its blade foams with blood, and her hands are bloodstained.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	conlāpsus	conlāpsa	conlāpsum		conlāpsī	conlāpsae	conlāpsa
genitive	conlāpsī	conlāpsae	conlāpsī		conlāpsōrum	conlāpsārum	conlāpsōrum
dative	conlāpsō	conlāpsae	conlāpsō		conlāpsīs
accusative	conlāpsum	conlāpsam	conlāpsum		conlāpsōs	conlāpsās	conlāpsa
ablative	conlāpsō	conlāpsā	conlāpsō		conlāpsīs
vocative	conlāpse	conlāpsa	conlāpsum		conlāpsī	conlāpsae	conlāpsa

References

• “conlapsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers