cessatus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of cessō.

Participle

cessātus (feminine cessāta, neuter cessātum); first/second-declension participle

1. delayed, tarried, having been delayed
2. rested, having been rested
3. (of land) fallowed, having been left fallow
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.617–618:

     largaque prōvēnit cessātīs messis in arvīs,
     et vix congestās ārea cēpit opēs.

     [...] and a bountiful harvest came forth in fields which had lain fallow,
     and the threshing floor barely contained the accumulated wealth.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	cessātus	cessāta	cessātum		cessātī	cessātae	cessāta
genitive	cessātī	cessātae	cessātī		cessātōrum	cessātārum	cessātōrum
dative	cessātō	cessātae	cessātō		cessātīs
accusative	cessātum	cessātam	cessātum		cessātōs	cessātās	cessāta
ablative	cessātō	cessātā	cessātō		cessātīs
vocative	cessāte	cessāta	cessātum		cessātī	cessātae	cessāta