mattus

Latin

Alternative forms

• mātus

Etymology

Syncopated from *madĭtus (with subsequent assimilation of /dt/ to /tt/), from madēre (“be drunk, be wet”), itself from Proto-Italic *madēō, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet”). Cognate of Sanskrit मत्त (mattá, “drunk”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmat.tus/, [ˈmät̪ːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmat.tus/, [ˈmät̪ːus]

Adjective

mattus (feminine matta, neuter mattum); first/second-declension adjective

1. drunk, intoxicated

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ebrius

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	mattus	matta	mattum		mattī	mattae	matta
genitive	mattī	mattae	mattī		mattōrum	mattārum	mattōrum
dative	mattō	mattae	mattō		mattīs
accusative	mattum	mattam	mattum		mattōs	mattās	matta
ablative	mattō	mattā	mattō		mattīs
vocative	matte	matta	mattum		mattī	mattae	matta

Synonyms

• ēbrius

Descendants

• French: mat
• Italian: matto

References

• “mattus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mattus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mattus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 518