editus

editus

1. conditional of editar

Perfect passive participle of ēdō (“to bring forth; bring about”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈeː.dɪ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.di.tus]

ēditus (feminine ēdita, neuter ēditum); first/second-declension participle

1. brought forth, having been brought forth; ejected, having been ejected, discharged, having been discharged
2. produced, having been produced; begotten, having been begotten
3. published, having been published, spread abroad, having been spread abroad
4. related, having been related, told, having been told; disclosed, having been disclosed, announced, having been announced
5. performed, having been performed, brought about, having been brought about
6. lifted, having been lifted, elevated, having been elevated, set forth, heightened

ēditus (feminine ēdita, neuter ēditum, comparative ēditior, superlative ēditissimus); first/second-declension adjective

1. (of places) elevated, high, lofty
2. (figuratively, as comparative) superior
   • c. 35 BCE, Horatius, Sermones 1.3.107–110:

     Nam fuit ante Helenam cunnus taeterrima belli
     causa, sed ignotis perierunt mortibus illi,
     quos Venerem incertam rapientis more ferarum
     viribus editior caedebat ut in grege taurus.

     • Translation by Christopher Smart (tr.), Theodore Alois Buckley (ed.), The Works of Horace (1863); literal gloss of “viribus editior” added by the Wiktionary contributor

       For before Helen’s time there existed [many] a woman who was the dismal cause of war: but those fell by unknown deaths, whom pursuing uncertain venery, as the bull in the herd, the strongest [lit. “the superior in strengths”] slew.

First/second-declension adjective.

• ēditum, ēdita

From ēdō + -tus (forming action nouns).

• ēditus:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈeː.dɪ.tʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.di.tus]
• ēditūs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈeː.dɪ.tuːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.di.tus]

ēditus m (genitive ēditūs); fourth declension

1. a voiding, defecation, excrement

   ēditus boum ― bulls’ excrement

Fourth-declension noun.

• “ēdĭtus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ēditus, -a, -um”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ēdĭtus, -ūs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ēdĭtus, -a, -um / ēdĭtŭs, -ūs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 571/2.
• "editus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) heights, high ground: loca edita, superiora