commixtus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of commisceō.

Participle

commixtus (feminine commixta, neuter commixtum, adverb commixtim); first/second-declension participle

1. mixed, mixed together, mixed up, mingled, intermingled, combined; having been mixed, etc.
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.160–161:

     Intereā magnō miscērī murmure caelum
     incipit; īnsequitur commixtā grandine nimbus.

     Meanwhile the sky becomes embroiled with a mighty rumble; a cloudburst follows, mixed with hail.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	commixtus	commixta	commixtum		commixtī	commixtae	commixta
genitive	commixtī	commixtae	commixtī		commixtōrum	commixtārum	commixtōrum
dative	commixtō	commixtae	commixtō		commixtīs
accusative	commixtum	commixtam	commixtum		commixtōs	commixtās	commixta
ablative	commixtō	commixtā	commixtō		commixtīs
vocative	commixte	commixta	commixtum		commixtī	commixtae	commixta

Descendants

• Italian: commisto
• Spanish: conmixto

Etymology 2

From commisceō +‎ -tus.

Noun

commixtus m (genitive commixtūs); fourth declension

1. (Late Latin) sexual intercourse

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	commixtus	commixtūs
genitive	commixtūs	commixtuum
dative	commixtuī	commixtibus
accusative	commixtum	commixtūs
ablative	commixtū	commixtibus
vocative	commixtus	commixtūs

References

• “commixtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “commixtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “commixtus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Souter, Alexander (1949), “commixtus”, in A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D.‎, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 1957, page 62