incomitatus
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom in- (“un-”) + comitātus (“accompanied”), from the perfect passive participle of comitor (“to escort, accompany, attend”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /in.ko.miˈtaː.tus/, [ɪŋkɔmɪˈt̪äːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /in.ko.miˈta.tus/, [iŋkomiˈt̪äːt̪us]
Adjective
editincomitātus (feminine incomitāta, neuter incomitātum); first/second-declension adjective
- unaccompanied, unattended, alone
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.513–514:
- ‘māter!’ ait virgō (mōta est dea nōmine mātris)
‘quid facis in sōlīs incomitāta locīs?’- ‘‘Mother!’’ says the maiden (the goddess was moved by the name of mother),
‘‘What are you doing unattended in lonely places?’’
(A young shepherdess chances upon the goddess Ceres who, having disguised herself as an old woman, is searching everywhere for her own lost daughter, Persephone.)
- ‘‘Mother!’’ says the maiden (the goddess was moved by the name of mother),
- ‘māter!’ ait virgō (mōta est dea nōmine mātris)
Declension
editFirst/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | incomitātus | incomitāta | incomitātum | incomitātī | incomitātae | incomitāta | |
Genitive | incomitātī | incomitātae | incomitātī | incomitātōrum | incomitātārum | incomitātōrum | |
Dative | incomitātō | incomitātō | incomitātīs | ||||
Accusative | incomitātum | incomitātam | incomitātum | incomitātōs | incomitātās | incomitāta | |
Ablative | incomitātō | incomitātā | incomitātō | incomitātīs | |||
Vocative | incomitāte | incomitāta | incomitātum | incomitātī | incomitātae | incomitāta |
References
edit- “incomitatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “incomitatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers