succinctus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of succingō (“tuck up, gird”), formally sub- +‎ cīnctus.

Participle

succīnctus (feminine succīncta, neuter succīnctum); first/second-declension participle

1. girded, belted, girdled (having one's clothes gathered up by a belt or sim.)
   1. equipped, armed with something (also used figuratively)
2. clothed in a garment fitted with a belt
   1. tightly wrapped, enclosed by
3. (figurative) tucked up and ready, girded up, prepared for action
4. (figurative) concise, succinct

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	succīnctus	succīncta	succīnctum		succīnctī	succīnctae	succīncta
genitive	succīnctī	succīnctae	succīnctī		succīnctōrum	succīnctārum	succīnctōrum
dative	succīnctō	succīnctae	succīnctō		succīnctīs
accusative	succīnctum	succīnctam	succīnctum		succīnctōs	succīnctās	succīncta
ablative	succīnctō	succīnctā	succīnctō		succīnctīs
vocative	succīncte	succīncta	succīnctum		succīnctī	succīnctae	succīncta

Related terms

• succingō

Descendants

• → Catalan: succint
• → English: succinct
• → French: succinct
• → Italian: succinto
• → Portuguese: sucinto

References

• “succinctus” on page 2047 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)

Further reading

• “succinctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "succinctus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “succinctus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.