inveteratus

inveteratus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of inveterō (“give age or duration to something”).

Participle

inveterātus (feminine inveterāta, neuter inveterātum); first/second-declension participle

1. rendered old, given age or duration, aged, having been rendered old
2. (by extension) kept for a long time, preserved
3. (by extension) inveterate, old, of long standing, rooted
4. (by extension, of diseases) deep-seated, chronic, inveterate

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	inveterātus	inveterāta	inveterātum		inveterātī	inveterātae	inveterāta
Genitive	inveterātī	inveterātae	inveterātī		inveterātōrum	inveterātārum	inveterātōrum
Dative	inveterātō		inveterātō		inveterātīs
Accusative	inveterātum	inveterātam	inveterātum		inveterātōs	inveterātās	inveterāta
Ablative	inveterātō	inveterātā	inveterātō		inveterātīs
Vocative	inveterāte	inveterāta	inveterātum		inveterātī	inveterātae	inveterāta

Descendants

• Catalan: inveterat
• French: invétéré
• Galician: inveterado
• Italian: inveterato
• Occitan: inveterat
• Portuguese: inveterado
• Spanish: inveterado

References

• “inveteratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• inveteratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a rooted opinion: opinio confirmata, inveterata
    
  • to cherish an inveterate animosity against some one: odium inveteratum habere in aliquem (Vat. 3. 6)