oppressus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of opprimō.

Participle

oppressus (feminine oppressa, neuter oppressum); first/second-declension participle

1. suppressed; surprised, captured; crushed; oppressed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	oppressus	oppressa	oppressum		oppressī	oppressae	oppressa
genitive	oppressī	oppressae	oppressī		oppressōrum	oppressārum	oppressōrum
dative	oppressō		oppressō		oppressīs
accusative	oppressum	oppressam	oppressum		oppressōs	oppressās	oppressa
ablative	oppressō	oppressā	oppressō		oppressīs
vocative	oppresse	oppressa	oppressum		oppressī	oppressae	oppressa

References

• “oppressus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• oppressus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to keep the citizens in servile subjection: civitatem servitute oppressam tenere (Dom. 51. 131)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be overcome by sleep: somno captum, oppressum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to have pressing debts: aere alieno oppressum esse