aggestus

Latin

Alternative forms

• adgestus

Etymology

From aggerō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aɡˈɡɛs.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [adˈd͡ʒɛs.tus]

Noun

aggestus m (genitive aggestūs); fourth declension

1. an accumulation, a piling up, act of bringing
2. a mound, dike, or elevation formed like a dike; an earthen bank

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	aggestus	aggestūs
genitive	aggestūs	aggestuum
dative	aggestuī	aggestibus
accusative	aggestum	aggestūs
ablative	aggestū	aggestibus
vocative	aggestus	aggestūs

Descendants

• Romanian: agest

References

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