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Verb

deceptus

  1. conditional of deceptar

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of dēcipiō.

Participle

dēceptus (feminine dēcepta, neuter dēceptum); first/second-declension participle

  1. caught
  2. deceived, cheated, betrayed; having deceived, etc.
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.16-17:
      “[...] nē cui mē vinclō vellem sociāre iugālī,
      postquam prīmus amor dēceptam morte fefellit, [...].”
      “[...] it had not been my wish to join anyone in the marriage bond, after [my] first love had deluded [me], having cheated [me] by [his] death, [...].”

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

  • Italian: decetto (archaic)

References

  • deceptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • deceptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "deceptus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • deceptus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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