-atus
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Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *-ātos, from Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos. A "pseudo-participle" possibly related to -tus, though similar formations in other Indo-European languages show that it was distinct from it already in Indo-European times. Compare -ītus, -ūtus.
Cognate to Proto-Slavic *-atъ, Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz (English -ed (“having”)).
Suffix
-ātus (feminine -āta, neuter -ātum); first/second-declension suffix
- -ed. Used to form adjectives from nouns indicating the possession of a thing or feature.
- Used to form adjectives from other adjectives, especially color names, with the sense "wearing [adjective](-colored) clothes".
- -like, -ate. Used to form adjectives from nouns indicating a resemblance or likeness to the noun.
- rēticulum (“small net”) + -ātus → rēticulātus (“reticulated, net-like”)
- vir (“man”) + -ātus → virātus (“manly, manful”)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | -ātus | -āta | -ātum | -ātī | -ātae | -āta | |
| genitive | -ātī | -ātae | -ātī | -ātōrum | -ātārum | -ātōrum | |
| dative | -ātō | -ātae | -ātō | -ātīs | |||
| accusative | -ātum | -ātam | -ātum | -ātōs | -ātās | -āta | |
| ablative | -ātō | -ātā | -ātō | -ātīs | |||
| vocative | -āte | -āta | -ātum | -ātī | -ātae | -āta | |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Asturian: -áu, -ada
- Catalan: -at, -ada
- → English: -ate, -ade
- French: -é, -ée, -ade (from Italian or Occitan)
- Friulian: -ât, -ade
- Galician: -ado
- → German: -at
- Italian: -ato
- Occitan: -at
- Portuguese: -ado, -ada
- Romanian: -at, -ată
- Spanish: -ado, -ada
- Sicilian: -atu, -ata
- → Portuguese: -ato
- → Spanish: -ato
Etymology 2
Formed by rebracketing of action nouns in -tus, -tūs formed from the perfect passive participle of first conjugation verbs, such as mercātus (mercor + -tus) or pecūlātus (peculor + -tus), where -ā- is actually part of the stem; from Proto-Italic *-tus, from Proto-Indo-European *-tus (suffix deriving action nouns from verb roots).
Suffix
-ātus m
- Form of -tus appended to nouns
- triumvir + -ātus → triumvirātus
- episcopus + -ātus → episcopātus
- apostolus + -ātus → apostolātus
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
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