verbfirst/second-declension participle
mixtus
mixtus (feminine mixta, neuter mixtum, comparative mixtior, superlative mixtissimus, adverb mixtim or mixtē)
Classical[ˈmɪk.stʊs]Ecclesiastical[ˈmik.stus]
mixtim
Meaning
- participlemixed; blended; mingled; combined
[...] īnstauratque chorōs, mixtīque altāria circum Crētēsque Dryopēsque fremunt pictīque Agathyrsī; [...].
[Apollo] renews the dance while, mingled ’round the altars, Cretans and Dryopes, and painted Agathyrsians chant; ….29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.145–146tunc ego rēgnābam, patiēns cum terrā deōrum
then I was reigning, when the earth was fit for gods, and divinities mingled in the places of men8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 1.247–248
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
commixtus, iūnctusmixtus -a -um — in IVLIANVS I: Gallia, ch. 13
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
mīxtus adj.
P. of misceo, hybrid : genus, V.
Origins
From Proto-Italic *mikstos. Perfect passive participle of misceō (“mix”).
Descendants
- Catalanmixt
- Englishmixt
- Frenchmixte
- Italianmisto
- Portuguesemisto
- Portuguesemixto
- Romanianmixt
- Spanishmesto
- Spanishmesta
- Spanishmixto