erutus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of ēruō.

Participle

ērutus (feminine ēruta, neuter ērutum); first/second-declension participle

1. cast or thrown out
2. dug, torn or plucked out
3. rooted up, uprooted, dug out, taken
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.351–352:

     nam sata vērē novō tenēris lactentia sulcīs
     ēruta saetigerae comperit ōre suīs.

     For in the early part of the spring she found that the crops of corn, swelling with their young milky juice,
     were rooted up by the snout of the bristly swine.
     1851. The Fasti &c of Ovid. Trans. & notes by H. T. Riley. London: H. G. Bohn. pg. 24.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ērutus	ēruta	ērutum		ērutī	ērutae	ēruta
Genitive	ērutī	ērutae	ērutī		ērutōrum	ērutārum	ērutōrum
Dative	ērutō		ērutō		ērutīs
Accusative	ērutum	ērutam	ērutum		ērutōs	ērutās	ēruta
Ablative	ērutō	ērutā	ērutō		ērutīs
Vocative	ērute	ēruta	ērutum		ērutī	ērutae	ēruta

References

• “erutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “erutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• erutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.