mammeatus

Latin

Etymology

From mamma (“breast”) +‎ -ātus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /mam.meˈaː.tus/, [mämːeˈäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mam.meˈa.tus/, [mämːeˈäːt̪us]

Adjective

mammeātus (feminine mammeāta, neuter mammeātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (hapax legomenon) large-breasted, full-breasted
   • c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 393:

     huius amica mammeata, mea inimica et malevola

     • 1912 translation by Henry Thomas Riley. (The Comedies of Plautus. London. G. Bell and Sons. Perseus.)

       MILPHIO: his full-bosomed mistress, my enemy and evil-wisher

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	mammeātus	mammeāta	mammeātum		mammeātī	mammeātae	mammeāta
genitive	mammeātī	mammeātae	mammeātī		mammeātōrum	mammeātārum	mammeātōrum
dative	mammeātō	mammeātae	mammeātō		mammeātīs
accusative	mammeātum	mammeātam	mammeātum		mammeātōs	mammeātās	mammeāta
ablative	mammeātō	mammeātā	mammeātō		mammeātīs
vocative	mammeāte	mammeāta	mammeātum		mammeātī	mammeātae	mammeāta

Related terms

• mamma
• mammōsus

References

• “mammeatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mammeatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.