plautus
See also: Plautus and pļautus
Latin
Alternative forms
- plōtus
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *plautos (whence Oscan 𐌐𐌋𐌀𐌅𐌕𐌀𐌃 sg (plavtad, “sole of the foot or of a shoe”, abl.), Umbrian preplotatu, preplohotatu (“cruch, stamp down”, 3sg.ipv.II.)), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂-u-tós, from *pleh₂-.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈplau̯.tus/, [ˈpɫ̪äu̯t̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈplau̯.tus/, [ˈpläːu̯t̪us]
Adjective
plautus (feminine plauta, neuter plautum); first/second-declension adjective
- (in specialised senses) flat
- having flat feet, flatfooted
- 8th century CE, Paulus Diaconus, Karl Otfried Müller, editor, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 238:
- Plōtōs appellant Umbrī pedibus plānīs nātōs . . . unde et Maccius poēta, quia Umber Sarsinās erat, a pedum plānitiē initiō Plōtus, posteā Plautus coeptus est dīcī.
- By the word plōtus the Umbrians call those born with flat feet . . . hence also the poet Maccius, being an Umbrian from Sarsinae and having flat feet, was at first called Plōtus, and then Plautus.
- Plōtōs appellant Umbrī pedibus plānīs nātōs . . . unde et Maccius poēta, quia Umber Sarsinās erat, a pedum plānitiē initiō Plōtus, posteā Plautus coeptus est dīcī.
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- having wide ears, wide-eared
- having flat feet, flatfooted
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | plautus | plauta | plautum | plautī | plautae | plauta | |
| Genitive | plautī | plautae | plautī | plautōrum | plautārum | plautōrum | |
| Dative | plautō | plautō | plautīs | ||||
| Accusative | plautum | plautam | plautum | plautōs | plautās | plauta | |
| Ablative | plautō | plautā | plautō | plautīs | |||
| Vocative | plaute | plauta | plautum | plautī | plautae | plauta | |
Derived terms
- *pauta (see *patta)
- Plautus
Descendants
Via feminine plauta:
- Gallo-Italic:
- Piedmontese: piòta (“paw”)
- Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: pllôta (“paw”)
References
- “plautus” on page 1528 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “plautus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Further reading
- “plautus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- plautus 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)
- plautus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “plautus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “plautus”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray