vatax
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *wat- (“curved”). Cognate with vatius (“bow-legged”), Proto-Germanic *waþwô (“curve, bend; calf of the leg, knee”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯a.taːks/, [ˈu̯ät̪äːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈva.taks/, [ˈväːt̪äks]
Adjective
editvatāx (genitive vatācis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- with crooked feet
Usage notes
editThe orthography was emended to vatrāx because it was supposedly derived from βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”). It appears under this spelling in Lewis and Short.
Declension
editThird-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
editReferences
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