moratus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect participle of moror

Participle

morātus (feminine morāta, neuter morātum); first/second-declension participle

1. lingered, loitered
2. delayed, hindered
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.5:

     Paucos dies ibi morati

     They delayed a few days there

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	morātus	morāta	morātum		morātī	morātae	morāta
Genitive	morātī	morātae	morātī		morātōrum	morātārum	morātōrum
Dative	morātō		morātō		morātīs
Accusative	morātum	morātam	morātum		morātōs	morātās	morāta
Ablative	morātō	morātā	morātō		morātīs
Vocative	morāte	morāta	morātum		morātī	morātae	morāta

Adjective

mōrātus (feminine mōrāta, neuter mōrātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. mannered, of morals

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	mōrātus	mōrāta	mōrātum		mōrātī	mōrātae	mōrāta
Genitive	mōrātī	mōrātae	mōrātī		mōrātōrum	mōrātārum	mōrātōrum
Dative	mōrātō		mōrātō		mōrātīs
Accusative	mōrātum	mōrātam	mōrātum		mōrātōs	mōrātās	mōrāta
Ablative	mōrātō	mōrātā	mōrātō		mōrātīs
Vocative	mōrāte	mōrāta	mōrātum		mōrātī	mōrātae	mōrāta

References

• “moratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “moratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• moratus 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)
• moratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a moral (immoral) man: homo bene (male) moratus