-atus
See also: atus and -átus
Latin
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *-ātos, from Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos. A "pseudo-participle" possibly related to -tus, though similar formations in other Indo-European languages show that it was distinct from it already in Indo-European times.
Cognate to Proto-Slavic *-atъ, Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz (English -ed (“having”)).
Suffix
-ātus (feminine -āta, neuter -ātum); first/second-declension suffix
- -ed. Used to form adjectives from nouns indicating the possession of a thing or feature.
- barba (“beard”) + -ātus → barbātus (“bearded, having a beard”)
- caetra (“a type of short Spanish shield”) + -ātus → caetrātus (“armed with a caetra”)
- toga (“toga”) + -ātus → togātus (“wearing a toga, clad in a toga”)
- Used to form adjectives from other adjectives, especially color names, with the sense "wearing [adjective](-colored) clothes".
- albus (“white”) + -ātus → albātus (“clothed in white”)
- āter (“black”) + -ātus → atrātus (“clothed in black”)
- sordidus (“unclean, sordid”) + -ātus → sordidātus (“in dirty clothes, shabbily dressed”)
- -like, -ate. Used to form adjectives from nouns indicating a resemblance or likeness to the noun.
- rēticulum (“small net”) + -ātus → rēticulātus (“reticulated, net-like”)
- vir (“man”) + -ātus → virātus (“manly, manful”)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | -ātus | -āta | -ātum | -ātī | -ātae | -āta | |
| Genitive | -ātī | -ātae | -ātī | -ātōrum | -ātārum | -ātōrum | |
| Dative | -ātō | -ātō | -ātīs | ||||
| Accusative | -ātum | -ātam | -ātum | -ātōs | -ātās | -āta | |
| Ablative | -ātō | -ātā | -ātō | -ātīs | |||
| Vocative | -āte | -āta | -ātum | -ātī | -ātae | -āta | |
Derived terms
Latin terms suffixed with -atus (adjective)
- -āticus, -āticum
- -ātim
- -ātiō
Descendants
- Asturian: -áu, -ada
- Catalan: -at, -ada
- → English: -ate, -ade
- French: -é, -ée, -ade (from Italian or Occitan)
- Friulian: -ât, -ade
- Galician: -ado
- → German: -at
- Italian: -ato
- Occitan: -at
- Portuguese: -ado, -ada
- Romanian: -at, -ată
- Spanish: -ado, -ada
- Sicilian: -atu, -ata
- → Portuguese: -ato
- → Spanish: -ato
Etymology 2
By rebracketing of action nouns in -tus, -tūs formed from first conjugation verbs, such as mercātus (mercor + -tus) or pecūlātus (peculor + -tus), where -ā- is actually part of the stem.
Suffix
-ātus m
- Form of -tus appended to nouns
- triumvir + -ātus → triumvirātus
- episcopus + -ātus → episcopātus
- apostolus + -ātus → apostolātus
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | -ātus | -ātūs |
| Genitive | -ātūs | -ātuum |
| Dative | -ātuī | -ātibus |
| Accusative | -ātum | -ātūs |
| Ablative | -ātū | -ātibus |
| Vocative | -ātus | -ātūs |
Derived terms
Latin terms suffixed with -atus (abstract noun)
Descendants
- French: -at
- → Norwegian Bokmål: -at
- Portuguese: -ado