# passus
## English
### Etymology

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### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpæsəs/

### Noun

passus (plural passuses)
* A section of a long narrative poem; a canto

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpas.sus/, [ˈpäs̠ːʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpas.sus/, [ˈpäsːus]

### Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of pandō (“I spread out [to dry]”).

#### Participle

passus (feminine passa, neuter passum); first/second-declension participle
* spread out
* dried
    ūva passa ― raisin

##### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

##### Descendants

* Galician: pasa, paso
* Italian: passo
* Portuguese: passa
* Sicilian: passu
* Spanish: paso

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Italic *pat-s-tus, from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread”). Equivalent to pandō +‎ -tus.

#### Noun

passus m (genitive passūs); fourth declension
* step
* pace
* pace: a Roman unit of length equal to five Roman feet

##### Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

##### Derived terms

* *passō

##### Descendants

* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: passu
* Balkano-Romance:
** Romanian: pas
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Dalmatian: puas
** Italian: passo
** Neapolitan: passu
** Sicilian: passu
** Venetan: paso
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Friulian: pas
** Romansch: pass
* Gallo-Italic:
** Lombard: pass
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: pas
** Occitan: pas
** Old French: pas
*** → English: pace
*** French: pas
**** → English: pas
**** → Polish: pas
*** → Middle Dutch: pas
**** Dutch: pas
***** Afrikaans: pas
***** → Indonesian: pas
* Ibero-Romance:
** Old Galician-Portuguese: passo, paso
*** Galician: paso
*** Portuguese: passo
** Spanish: paso
*** → Cebuano: paso
* Borrowings:
** → Albanian: pash
** → English: passus
** → German: Passus
** → Swedish: passus

### Etymology 3

Perfect active participle of patior.

#### Participle

passus (feminine passa, neuter passum); first/second-declension participle
* suffered, having suffered, experienced, undergone
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.199:“Ō, passī graviōra! Dabit deus hīs quoque fīnem.”“Oh, [you who] have suffered heavier [woes]! God will grant an end to this, too.”
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.487–488:nec tamen ut prīmus maerē mala tālia passus; obruit ingentēs ista procella virōsMourn not as though thou wert the first that had suffered such ills; the same storm has borne down many a mighty man. 1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Translated by H. T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 31.
* allowed, having allowed
* permitted, having permitted

##### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

##### Derived terms

* passīvus

### References

* “1. passus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “2. passus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “passus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "passus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* passus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. a mile away: a mille passibus with dishevelled hair: passis crinibus
* “passus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* passus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “passus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin passus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpas.sus/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -assus
* Syllabification: pas‧sus

### Noun

passus m inan
* (literary) passage (section of text)
    Synonyms: akapit, fragment, ustęp

#### Declension
### Further reading

* passus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* passus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Latin passus (“step”).

### Noun

passus c
* A short section (e.g. a few connected words or sentences) of a written or oral presentation; a "passage" (in a book, etc.); an "item" (of a presentation)
* A short elaboration on an item of a presentation not belonging to the main subject

#### Inflection
### References

* passus in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* passus in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* passus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

### Anagrams

* pussas