pateo

pateo

See also: pateó

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *peth₂-.

Cognate with pandō, Oscan patensíns (“they opened”), Ancient Greek πετάννυμι (petánnumi, “to spread out, to spread wide”) (< *peth₂-néu-) and πίτνημι (pítnēmi, “to spread out”) (< *pt-ne-h₂-), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬚𐬀𐬥𐬀‎ (paθana, “broad”), Old English fæþm (whence English fathom).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.te.oː/, [ˈpät̪eoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.te.o/, [ˈpäːt̪eo]

Verb

pateō (present infinitive patēre, perfect active patuī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. I am open, accessible, attainable.
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.371-372:

     ‘atque utinam pugnae pateat locus! arma capessant
     et, sī nōn poterunt exsuperāre, cadant’

     “Yet if only a battlefield would open! May they fight; and, if they are unable to prevail, let them fall.”
     (The poetic voice of Mars, asking Jupiter to defend Rome against the invading Gauls, is saying in effect, “Give the Romans a chance to fight.”)

   Synonym: patesco

2. I am exposed, vulnerable.
3. I increase or extend (said of frontiers or land)
   • Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico:

     Fīnēs...quī in longitūdinem mīlia passuum dūcenta...patēbant.

4. To be clear, evident.

Conjugation

Conjugation of pateō (second conjugation, no supine stem, active only)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	pateō	patēs	patet	patēmus	patētis	patent
	imperfect	patēbam	patēbās	patēbat	patēbāmus	patēbātis	patēbant
	future	patēbō	patēbis	patēbit	patēbimus	patēbitis	patēbunt
	perfect	patuī	patuistī	patuit	patuimus	patuistis	patuērunt, patuēre
	pluperfect	patueram	patuerās	patuerat	patuerāmus	patuerātis	patuerant
	future perfect	patuerō	patueris	patuerit	patuerimus	patueritis	patuerint
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	pateam	pateās	pateat	pateāmus	pateātis	pateant
	imperfect	patērem	patērēs	patēret	patērēmus	patērētis	patērent
	perfect	patuerim	patuerīs	patuerit	patuerīmus	patuerītis	patuerint
	pluperfect	patuissem	patuissēs	patuisset	patuissēmus	patuissētis	patuissent
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	patē	—	—	patēte	—
	future	—	patētō	patētō	—	patētōte	patentō
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		patēre	patuisse	—	—	—	—
participles		patēns	—	—	—	—	—
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		patendī	patendō	patendum	patendō	—	—

Derived terms

• patefaciō
• patera
• patibulum
• pator
• Patulcius
• bipatēns

Descendants

• Catalan: patent
• English: patent
• French: patent, patente
• Italian: patente
• Portuguese: patente
• Spanish: patente

References

• “pateo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pateo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pateo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the word has a more extended signification: vocabulum latius patet
    
  • I am always welcome at his house: domus patet, aperta est mihi
    
  • from this it appears, is apparent: inde patet, appāret
    
  • (ambiguous) to extend in breadth, in length: in latitudinem, in longitudinem patere
    
  • (ambiguous) to have a wide extent: late patere (also metaphorically vid. sect. VIII. 8)
    

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Portuguese

Noun

pateo m (plural pateos)

1. Obsolete spelling of pátio

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Spanish

Noun

pateo m (plural pateos)

1. stomp; stomping; stamp; stamping

Verb

pateo

1. first-person singular present indicative of patear

Further reading

• “pateo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014