vates
See also: vätes
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editvates
- 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.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editdivinely inspired poet
Anagrams
editLatin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Italic *wātis, from Proto-Indo-European *wéh₂t-i-s (“seer”), from *weh₂t- (“to be excited”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯aː.teːs/, [ˈu̯äːt̪eːs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈva.tes/, [ˈväːt̪es]
Noun
editvātēs m (genitive vātis); third declension
- seer, soothsayer, diviner, prophet, prophetess
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.65:
- Heu, vātum ignārae mentēs!
- Alas, the unknowing minds of diviners!
(Ambiguity: The statement may refer either to the haruspices accompanying Dido and Anna, or to the sisters’ own misinterpretations of the extispicia.)
- Alas, the unknowing minds of diviners!
- Heu, vātum ignārae mentēs!
- poet, poetess, bard
- Synonym: poēta
- oracle
Declension
editThird-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 |
Derived terms
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editReferences
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
Latvian
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editvates f
Spanish
editNoun
editvates m pl
Volapük
editNoun
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