secutus

Latin

Alternative forms

• sequūtus

Etymology

Perfect active participle of sequor (“to follow”) (for expected *sectus, proven by sector, possibly after volūtus, solūtus etc.).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛˈkuː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈkuː.tus]

Participle

secūtus (feminine secūta, neuter secūtum); first/second-declension participle

1. followed, having followed
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.6:

     secuta ex omni multitudine consentiens vox

     The following voice of assent from the entire throng

2. conformed, having conformed
3. attended, having attended

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	secūtus	secūta	secūtum		secūtī	secūtae	secūta
genitive	secūtī	secūtae	secūtī		secūtōrum	secūtārum	secūtōrum
dative	secūtō	secūtae	secūtō		secūtīs
accusative	secūtum	secūtam	secūtum		secūtōs	secūtās	secūta
ablative	secūtō	secūtā	secūtō		secūtīs
vocative	secūte	secūta	secūtum		secūtī	secūtae	secūta

Descendants

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *sequita (from the feminine)
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Old French: suite (see there for further descendants)

Noun

secūtus m (genitive secūtī); second declension

1. follower, pursuer

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	secūtus	secūtī
genitive	secūtī	secūtōrum
dative	secūtō	secūtīs
accusative	secūtum	secūtōs
ablative	secūtō	secūtīs
vocative	secūte	secūtī

References

• “secutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 161