prolapsus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prolapsus (“collapsed”), perfect passive participle of prōlābor.

Noun

prolapsus (countable and uncountable, plural prolapsi or prolapsuses)

1. (medicine) prolapse

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prolapsus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /proˈlapsus/

Verb

prolapsus

1. conditional of prolapsi

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of prōlābor.

Participle

prōlāpsus (feminine prōlāpsa, neuter prōlāpsum); first/second-declension participle

1. collapsed
2. fell into ruin or the fallen

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	prōlāpsus	prōlāpsa	prōlāpsum		prōlāpsī	prōlāpsae	prōlāpsa
genitive	prōlāpsī	prōlāpsae	prōlāpsī		prōlāpsōrum	prōlāpsārum	prōlāpsōrum
dative	prōlāpsō	prōlāpsae	prōlāpsō		prōlāpsīs
accusative	prōlāpsum	prōlāpsam	prōlāpsum		prōlāpsōs	prōlāpsās	prōlāpsa
ablative	prōlāpsō	prōlāpsā	prōlāpsō		prōlāpsīs
vocative	prōlāpse	prōlāpsa	prōlāpsum		prōlāpsī	prōlāpsae	prōlāpsa

Descendants

• → Catalan: prolapse
• → English: prolapse
• → German: Prolaps
• → Italian: prolasso
• → Spanish: prolapso

References

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