tutus
- plural oftutu
tutus
- third-personsingularsimplepresentindicative oftutu
tutus
- plural oftutu
Collateral perfect participle oftueor(“I care for, guard, defend, protect,etc.”). Comparetuitus.
tūtus (femininetūta,neutertūtum,comparativetūtior,superlativetūtissimus,adverbtūtēortūtō);first/second-declension adjective
- safe,prudent
29BCE – 19BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid4.373:
- “Nusquamtūta fidēs.”
- “Nowhere [is my] trustsafe.”
(Queen Dido despairs of fidelity from heavenly gods or earthly men.)
- secure
- protected
- Synonyms:munitus,defensus,firmātus
- Antonyms:infestus,inermis,intutus,nudus
First/second-declension adjective.
- “tūtus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tutus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "tutus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tutus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- the cavalry covers the retreat:equitatus tutum receptum dat
- (ambiguous) to be in a position of safety:in tuto esse
- (ambiguous) to ensure the safety of a thing:in tuto collocare aliquid