parasitus

From Ancient Greek παράσιτος (parásitos, “person who eats at the table of another”).

parasītus m (genitive parasītī, feminine parasīta); second declension

1. guest
2. sponger, parasite, freeloader

Second-declension noun.

• parasītaster

• → English: parasite
• → Translingual: Parasitus

• “parasitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “parasitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• parasitus 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)
• parasitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “parasitus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers