direptus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of dīripiō.

Participle

dīreptus (feminine dīrepta, neuter dīreptum); first/second-declension participle

1. torn to shreds
2. laid waste, pillaged, plundered, rifled, ravaged; having been pillaged, etc.
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.562–563:

     “[...] subiit dēserta Creūsa,
     et dīrepta domus, et parvī cāsūs Iūlī.”

     “[...] the thought of Creusa having been forsaken, and my home laid waste, and the misfortune of little Iulus.”
     (As Troy falls Aeneas fears for the safety of his own family.)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	dīreptus	dīrepta	dīreptum		dīreptī	dīreptae	dīrepta
genitive	dīreptī	dīreptae	dīreptī		dīreptōrum	dīreptārum	dīreptōrum
dative	dīreptō	dīreptae	dīreptō		dīreptīs
accusative	dīreptum	dīreptam	dīreptum		dīreptōs	dīreptās	dīrepta
ablative	dīreptō	dīreptā	dīreptō		dīreptīs
vocative	dīrepte	dīrepta	dīreptum		dīreptī	dīreptae	dīrepta

Derived terms

• indīreptus

Related terms

• dīreptiō

References

• “direptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “direptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• direptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.