foedans

See also: födans

Latin

Etymology

Present participle of foedō

Participle

foedāns (genitive foedantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. making hideous, befouling, disfiguring, lacerating, spoiling, defiling
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.673:

     unguibus ōra soror foedāns et pectora pugnīs

     the [grieving] sister disfiguring her face with her fingernails, and [beating] her breast with her fists
     (Aeneid line 4.673 repeats at 12.871; cf. 11.86. Note the poetic plurals: ora…pectora. See Arthur Stanley Pease, (1935), Publi Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Liber Quartus, pp. 517-519, for extensive classical references to similar behaviors.)

   • Vergil, Aeneid, Book XII:

     infelix crinis scindit Iuturna solutos unguibus ora soror foedans

     The unhappy sister Juturna tore the loosened hair, defiling her face with her fingernails.

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	foedāns			foedantēs	foedantia
genitive	foedantis			foedantium
dative	foedantī			foedantibus
accusative	foedantem	foedāns		foedantēs foedantīs	foedantia
ablative	foedante foedantī1			foedantibus
vocative	foedāns			foedantēs	foedantia

¹When used purely as an adjective.