recussus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of recutiō

Participle

recussus (feminine recussa, neuter recussum); first/second-declension participle

1. struck, having been struck back
2. rebounded, having been rebounded
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.52–53:

     “Stetit illa tremēns, uterōque recussō
     īnsonuēre cavae gemitumque dedēre cavernae.”

     “[The spear] stuck there, quivering, and as the [wooden horse’s] womb rebounded, [its timbers] echoed, and its hollow insides gave up a groan.” – Aeneas
     (Syncopated verbs: insonuer[unt]; deder[unt].)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	recussus	recussa	recussum		recussī	recussae	recussa
genitive	recussī	recussae	recussī		recussōrum	recussārum	recussōrum
dative	recussō	recussae	recussō		recussīs
accusative	recussum	recussam	recussum		recussōs	recussās	recussa
ablative	recussō	recussā	recussō		recussīs
vocative	recusse	recussa	recussum		recussī	recussae	recussa

References

• “recussus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press