astratus
Latin
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of asternō.
Participle
astrātus (feminine astrāta, neuter astrātum); first/second-declension participle
- prostrated, prostrate
- c. 330 CE, Juvencus, Evangeliorum libri quattuor 1.13:
- Cetera nam foribus tunc plebs adstrata rogabat
- For the rest of the people were praying prostrate outside
- Cetera nam foribus tunc plebs adstrata rogabat
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | astrātus | astrāta | astrātum | astrātī | astrātae | astrāta | |
Genitive | astrātī | astrātae | astrātī | astrātōrum | astrātārum | astrātōrum | |
Dative | astrātō | astrātō | astrātīs | ||||
Accusative | astrātum | astrātam | astrātum | astrātōs | astrātās | astrāta | |
Ablative | astrātō | astrātā | astrātō | astrātīs | |||
Vocative | astrāte | astrāta | astrātum | astrātī | astrātae | astrāta |
Alternative forms
- adstrātus
Etymology 2
From astrum (“star, constellation”) + -ātus.
Adjective
astrātus (feminine astrāta, neuter astrātum); first/second-declension adjective
- (Medieval Latin, New Latin) starry
- 1530, Thomas Cajetan, In Psalmos; republished as Thomæ de Vio Caietani […] In Psalmos, Parabolas Salomonis, & Ecclesiasten, nec non in tria priora Isaiæ Capita, Commentarii […] , volume 3, 1639, page 69:
- […] constat autem quòd cœli astrati, ex concauo & cõuexo (qui sunt termini figuræ cælestis) diuidũt aquas, hoc est, cælum aqueum, ab aquis elementaris materiæ.
- […] for it is evident that the starry heavens divide the waters, that is, the watery heaven from the waters of elementary matter, in concave and convex manners (these being the limits of the shape of the heavens).
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- (Medieval Latin) starlike, (figuratively) excellent
References
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “astratus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, OCLC 1369101
- astratus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck