evictus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of ēvincō

Participle

ēvictus (feminine ēvicta, neuter ēvictum); first/second-declension participle

1. vanquished, conquered, overcome (thoroughly)
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.474–475:

     Ergō ubi concēpit furiās ēvicta dolōre / dēcrēvitque morī, [...].

     Therefore, when [Dido] had been overcome by anguish, she conceived madness, and resolved to die.

2. evicted

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ēvictus	ēvicta	ēvictum		ēvictī	ēvictae	ēvicta
genitive	ēvictī	ēvictae	ēvictī		ēvictōrum	ēvictārum	ēvictōrum
dative	ēvictō	ēvictae	ēvictō		ēvictīs
accusative	ēvictum	ēvictam	ēvictum		ēvictōs	ēvictās	ēvicta
ablative	ēvictō	ēvictā	ēvictō		ēvictīs
vocative	ēvicte	ēvicta	ēvictum		ēvictī	ēvictae	ēvicta

Descendants

• English: evict

References

• “evictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “evictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers