vatax
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *wat- (“curved”). Cognate with vatius (“bow-legged”), Proto-Germanic *waþwô (“curve, bend; calf of the leg, knee”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯a.taːks/, [ˈu̯ät̪äːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈva.taks/, [ˈväːt̪äks]
Adjective edit
vatāx (genitive vatācis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- with crooked feet
Usage notes edit
The orthography was emended to vatrāx because it was supposedly derived from βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”). It appears under this spelling in Lewis and Short.
Declension edit
Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | vatāx | vatācēs | vatācia | ||
| Genitive | vatācis | vatācium | |||
| Dative | vatācī | vatācibus | |||
| Accusative | vatācem | vatāx | vatācēs | vatācia | |
| Ablative | vatācī | vatācibus | |||
| Vocative | vatāx | vatācēs | vatācia | ||
Related terms edit
References edit
- “vā̆trāx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vatax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Eric Herbert Warmington (1935) Remains of old Latin; newly edited and translated[2], page 274