densus

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈdɛnsus/ [ˈden.sʊs]
  • Rhymes: -ɛnsus
  • Syllabification: den‧sus

Noun

densus (plural densus-densus)

  1. syllabic abbreviation of detasemen khusus

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dens- (thick, dense); possibly related to Ancient Greek δᾰσῠ́ς (dăsŭ́s, hairy, shaggy, dense), Hittite [script needed] (daššu-, strong).[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

dēnsus (feminine dēnsa, neuter dēnsum, comparative dēnsior, superlative dēnsissimus, adverb dēnsē); first/second-declension adjective

  1. dense, compact
    Synonyms: stīpātus, crēber
  2. crowded, close
  3. frequent

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative dēnsus dēnsa dēnsum dēnsī dēnsae dēnsa
genitive dēnsī dēnsae dēnsī dēnsōrum dēnsārum dēnsōrum
dative dēnsō dēnsae dēnsō dēnsīs
accusative dēnsum dēnsam dēnsum dēnsōs dēnsās dēnsa
ablative dēnsō dēnsā dēnsō dēnsīs
vocative dēnse dēnsa dēnsum dēnsī dēnsae dēnsa

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: dens
  • Dalmatian: dais
  • Galician: denso
  • Italian: denso
  • Middle French: dense
  • Megleno-Romanian: des
  • Portuguese: denso
  • Romanian: des
  • Spanish: denso
  • Welsh: dwys

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “dēnsus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 167

Further reading

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