mattus
Latin
Alternative forms
- mātus
Etymology
Syncopated from *madĭtus (with subsequent assimilation of /dt/ to /tt/), from madēre (“be drunk, be wet”), itself from Proto-Italic *madēō, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet”). Cognate of Sanskrit मत्त (mattá, “drunk”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmat.tus/, [ˈmät̪ːʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmat.tus/, [ˈmät̪ːus]
Adjective
mattus (feminine matta, neuter mattum); first/second-declension adjective
- drunk, intoxicated
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mattus | matta | mattum | mattī | mattae | matta | |
| Genitive | mattī | mattae | mattī | mattōrum | mattārum | mattōrum | |
| Dative | mattō | mattō | mattīs | ||||
| Accusative | mattum | mattam | mattum | mattōs | mattās | matta | |
| Ablative | mattō | mattā | mattō | mattīs | |||
| Vocative | matte | matta | mattum | mattī | mattae | matta | |
Synonyms
- ēbrius
Descendants
- French: mat
- Italian: matto
References
- “mattus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mattus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “mattus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 518