Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From rīpa (riverbank) +‎ -āticum (noun-forming suffix). Attested from 651 CE.[1]

Noun

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rīpāticum n (genitive rīpāticī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. mooring fees
  2. littoral

Inflection

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rīpāticum rīpātica
Genitive rīpāticī rīpāticōrum
Dative rīpāticō rīpāticīs
Accusative rīpāticum rīpātica
Ablative rīpāticō rīpāticīs
Vocative rīpāticum rīpātica

Descendants

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  • Catalan: ribatge
  • Franco-Provençal: rivâjo
  • Old French: rivage (see there for further descendants)
  • Occitan: ribatge

References

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  • Blaise, Albert (1975) “ripaticus (-cum, ripagium, rivagium)”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (overall work in Latin and French), Turnhout: Brepols, page 801
  1. ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “ripaticus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 921