reatus

Latin

Etymology

From reus +‎ -ātus.

Noun

reātus m (genitive reātūs); fourth declension

1. state of being accused
2. appearance of an accused person
3. guilt

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	reātus	reātūs
Genitive	reātūs	reātuum
Dative	reātuī	reātibus
Accusative	reātum	reātūs
Ablative	reātū	reātibus
Vocative	reātus	reātūs

Derived terms

• reātitūdō

Descendants

• Catalan: reat
• Italian: reato
• Ladin: reat
• Piedmontese: reà
• Portuguese: reato
• Spanish: reato

References

• “reatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• reatus 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)
• reatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “reatus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC