obligatus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Perfect passive participle of obligō (“bind in obligation”).
Participle edit
obligātus (feminine obligāta, neuter obligātum); first/second-declension participle
- obliged, made liable, having been bound by obligation.
- made guilty, having been made guilty.
- mortgaged, pawned, having been mortgaged.
- restrained, impeded, having been restrained.
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | obligātus | obligāta | obligātum | obligātī | obligātae | obligāta | |
| Genitive | obligātī | obligātae | obligātī | obligātōrum | obligātārum | obligātōrum | |
| Dative | obligātō | obligātō | obligātīs | ||||
| Accusative | obligātum | obligātam | obligātum | obligātōs | obligātās | obligāta | |
| Ablative | obligātō | obligātā | obligātō | obligātīs | |||
| Vocative | obligāte | obligāta | obligātum | obligātī | obligātae | obligāta | |
Descendants edit
- → English: obligated, obligate
- French: obligé
- Italian: obbligato
- Portuguese: obrigado
- Romanian: obligat
- Spanish: obligado
References edit
- “obligatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- obligatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be the slave of superstition: superstitione teneri, constrictum esse, obligatum esse
- (ambiguous) to be the slave of superstition: superstitione teneri, constrictum esse, obligatum esse