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densus

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Indonesian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

densus (plural densus-densus)

syllabic abbreviation of detasemen khusus

Further reading

“densus”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈdẽː.sʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈdɛn.sus]

Adjective

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

dense, compact
Synonyms: stīpātus, crēber
crowded, close
frequent

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
	singular				plural
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
- French: dense
  - → Romanian: dens
- → English: dense
Megleno-Romanian: des
→ Portuguese: denso
Romanian: des
→ Spanish: denso
→ Welsh: dwys

References

^ 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.

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