fixus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of fīgō (“fasten, fix”).

Participle

fīxus (feminine fīxa, neuter fīxum); first/second-declension participle

1. unwavering

   Synonyms: prōmptus, indubius, certus

   Antonyms: incertus, dubius, suspensus, vagus, anceps

2. constant
3. immovable, fixed, fastened

   Synonyms: stabilis, statīvus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	fīxus	fīxa	fīxum		fīxī	fīxae	fīxa
genitive	fīxī	fīxae	fīxī		fīxōrum	fīxārum	fīxōrum
dative	fīxō	fīxae	fīxō		fīxīs
accusative	fīxum	fīxam	fīxum		fīxōs	fīxās	fīxa
ablative	fīxō	fīxā	fīxō		fīxīs
vocative	fīxe	fīxa	fīxum		fīxī	fīxae	fīxa

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Istriot: feîsso
  • Italian: fisso
  • Sicilian: fissu
  • Venetan: fiso
    • → Cimbrian: fiss
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fictus
  • Aromanian: hiptu
  • Italian: fitto
  • Romansch: fetg
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Asturian: fitu
    • Portuguese: fito
    • Spanish: hito

Borrowings

• → Asturian: fixe
• → Catalan: fix
• → Galician: fixo
• → Portuguese: fixo
• → Spanish: fijo
• → Swedish: fix
• → Old French: fix, fils, fis, fiz
  • Middle French: fixe
    • French: fixe
  • Norman: fixe
  • → Middle High German: fix
    • Central Franconian:
      • Hunsrik: fix
    • German: fix
      • → Hungarian: fix
      • → Swedish: fix
        • → Finnish: fiksu
  • ⇒ Old French: *fixer
    • Middle French: fixer
      • French: fixer
      • → Middle Dutch: fixeren
        • Dutch: fixeren
    • → Middle English: fixen
      • English: fix, fixe (verb) (archaic)
        • → Dutch: fixen, fiksen
      • Scots: fix

References

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