deiectus

• dējectus

Perfect passive participle of dēiciō (“to cast away, to throw down”).

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

dēiectus (feminine dēiecta, neuter dēiectum); first/second-declension participle

1. downcast, dismayed, dejected, cast down, thrown down
2. drooping, hanging

First/second-declension adjective.

From dēiciō (“to cast away, to throw down”) +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

• dēiectus:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈjɛk.tʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [deˈjɛk.tus]
• dēiectūs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈjɛk.tuːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [deˈjɛk.tus]

dēiectus m (genitive dēiectūs); fourth declension

1. a throwing down
2. that which is thrown down
3. declivity, descent
4. a lowering of the voice

Fourth-declension noun.

• “dējectus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dējectus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dēiectus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dēiectus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “dējectus / dējectŭs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• deiectus, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • deposed from one's high position: de principatu deiectus (B. G. 7. 63)