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parasitus

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek παράσιτος (parásitos, person who eats at the table of another).

Noun

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parasītus m (genitive parasītī, feminine parasīta); second declension

  1. guest
  2. sponger, parasite, freeloader

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative parasītus parasītī
genitive parasītī parasītōrum
dative parasītō parasītīs
accusative parasītum parasītōs
ablative parasītō parasītīs
vocative parasīte parasītī

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: parasite
  • Translingual: Parasitus

References

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  • parasitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • parasitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • parasitus 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)
  • parasitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • parasitus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers