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fessa

fessa is a Latin form of fatisco, meaning “grow weary; (fessus) tired, weary, exhausted”.

It can also be a form of fessus, “tired, weary, exhausted”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective or ablative singular feminine adjective or perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle vocative plural neuter.

Found 81 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Eclogues 8.85: Talis amor Daphnim, qualis cum fessa iuvencum

Ovid, Heroides 2.90: Fessaque Bistonia membra lavabis aqua!

All forms of fatisco (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.