vates
See also: vätes
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Etymology edit
From Latin vātēs, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₂t- (“excited, possessed”); cognate with Proto-Celtic *wātis (“seer”) (Gaulish ουατεις, Old Irish fáith, Welsh gwawd) and Proto-Germanic *wōdaz (“mad”) (Old English wōd (“mad, frenzied”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃 (wōds, “possessed, mad”), Old High German wuot (“mad, madness”). More at wood (“crazy, mad, insane”) and wode.
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Noun edit
vates
- A poet or bard who is divinely inspired.
- 1833 May, “Hayward’s Translation of Goethe’s “Faust””, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume VII, number XLI, London: James Fraser […], →OCLC, page 532, column 1:
- [Percy Bysshe] Shelley, a true vates, was called upon by their divine influence to render some choice passages from this very Faust, which, from confessed inability, [Francis Leveson-]Gower had left unattempted in his precious version, and some which from other motives he had purposely reticensed.
- 1999, Dennis Richard Danielson, The Cambridge Companion to Milton, Cambridge University Press, page 57:
- The volume is haunted by the death of the vates (poet-prophet) Orpheus, who failed to revive Eurydice from death and was then torn apart by maenads.
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divinely inspired poet
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Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *wātis, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₂t-i-s (“seer”), from *weh₂t- (“to be excited”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈu̯aː.teːs/, [ˈu̯äːt̪eːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈva.tes/, [ˈväːt̪es]
Noun edit
vātēs m (genitive vātis); third declension
- seer, soothsayer, prophet, prophetess
- 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.585-586:
- at fēlīx vātēs, ut dīs grātissima vīxit,
possidet hunc Iānī sīc dea mēnsē diem.- But the fortunate prophetess, since her life was most pleasing to the gods,
thus as a goddess has a day in this month of Janus.
(The prophetess who became honored as a goddess is Carmenta).
- But the fortunate prophetess, since her life was most pleasing to the gods,
- at fēlīx vātēs, ut dīs grātissima vīxit,
- poet, poetess, bard
- Synonym: poēta
- oracle
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vātēs | vātēs |
Genitive | vātis | vātum vātium |
Dative | vātī | vātibus |
Accusative | vātem | vātēs vātīs |
Ablative | vāte | vātibus |
Vocative | vātēs | vātēs |
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References edit
- “vates”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vates”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vates 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)
- vates 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
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