signatus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of signō (“I mark, seal, sign”).

Participle

signātus (feminine signāta, neuter signātum, adverb sīgnātē or sīgnātim); first/second-declension participle

1. marked, sealed, having been signed
2. indicated, designated, expressed
3. distinguished, recognized

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	signātus	signāta	signātum		signātī	signātae	signāta
Genitive	signātī	signātae	signātī		signātōrum	signātārum	signātōrum
Dative	signātō		signātō		signātīs
Accusative	signātum	signātam	signātum		signātōs	signātās	signāta
Ablative	signātō	signātā	signātō		signātīs
Vocative	signāte	signāta	signātum		signātī	signātae	signāta

Related terms

• sīgnō
• sīgnum

Descendants

• English: signate

References

• “signatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “signatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• signatus 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)
• signatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • coined money; bullion: aes (argentum) signatum