orsus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect active participle of ōrdior.

Participle

ōrsus (feminine ōrsa, neuter ōrsum); first/second-declension participle

1. having begun, started something

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ōrsus	ōrsa	ōrsum		ōrsī	ōrsae	ōrsa
genitive	ōrsī	ōrsae	ōrsī		ōrsōrum	ōrsārum	ōrsōrum
dative	ōrsō	ōrsae	ōrsō		ōrsīs
accusative	ōrsum	ōrsam	ōrsum		ōrsōs	ōrsās	ōrsa
ablative	ōrsō	ōrsā	ōrsō		ōrsīs
vocative	ōrse	ōrsa	ōrsum		ōrsī	ōrsae	ōrsa

References

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