spicatus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of spīcō (“furnish with spikes”), from spīca.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /spiːˈkaː.tus/, [s̠piːˈkäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /spiˈka.tus/, [spiˈkäːt̪us]

Participle

spīcātus (feminine spīcāta, neuter spīcātum); first/second-declension participle

1. spiky, having been furnished with spikes.
2. (of grain) eared, having put forth ears

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	spīcātus	spīcāta	spīcātum		spīcātī	spīcātae	spīcāta
Genitive	spīcātī	spīcātae	spīcātī		spīcātōrum	spīcātārum	spīcātōrum
Dative	spīcātō		spīcātō		spīcātīs
Accusative	spīcātum	spīcātam	spīcātum		spīcātōs	spīcātās	spīcāta
Ablative	spīcātō	spīcātā	spīcātō		spīcātīs
Vocative	spīcāte	spīcāta	spīcātum		spīcātī	spīcātae	spīcāta

Derived terms

• testācea spīcāta

References

• “spicatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spicatus 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)
• spicatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.