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lautus

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Perfect passive participle of lavō (wash). Doublet of lavātus and lōtus.

Pronunciation

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Participle

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lautus (feminine lauta, neuter lautum, comparative lautior, superlative lautissimus); first/second-declension participle

  1. washed, bathed, having been washed
  2. elegant, luxurious, noble, glorious, rich, splendid
    Synonyms: splendidus, glōriōsus, ēlegāns, opulēns
  3. fashionable, refined

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative lautus lauta lautum lautī lautae lauta
genitive lautī lautae lautī lautōrum lautārum lautōrum
dative lautō lautae lautō lautīs
accusative lautum lautam lautum lautōs lautās lauta
ablative lautō lautā lautō lautīs
vocative laute lauta lautum lautī lautae lauta

Descendants

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  • Galician: louza
  • Portuguese: louça
  • Spanish: loza
  • Galician: lauto
  • Italian: lauto
  • Portuguese: lauto

References

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  • lautus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • lautus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • lautus 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)
  • lautus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to live well: laute vivere (Nep. Chab. 3. 2)
    • to entertain, regale a person: accipere aliquem (bene, copiose, laute, eleganter, regio apparatu, apparatis epulis)