collapsus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect active participle of collābor (“collapse”).

Participle

collāpsus (feminine collāpsa, neuter collāpsum); first/second-declension participle

  1. collapsed, fallen in, having collapsed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

References

  • “collapsus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “collapsus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the house suddenly fell in ruins: domus subita ruina collapsa est