paratus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of parō (“I prepare”).

Participle

parātus (feminine parāta, neuter parātum, comparative parātior, superlative parātissimus); first/second-declension participle

1. prepared, arranged, having been prepared or arranged

   semper paratus

   always prepared (motto of several organisations, including the U.S. Coast Guard)

2. provided, furnished, having been provided or furnished
3. resolved, purposed, having been resolved or purposed

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	parātus	parāta	parātum		parātī	parātae	parāta
genitive	parātī	parātae	parātī		parātōrum	parātārum	parātōrum
dative	parātō	parātae	parātō		parātīs
accusative	parātum	parātam	parātum		parātōs	parātās	parāta
ablative	parātō	parātā	parātō		parātīs
vocative	parāte	parāta	parātum		parātī	parātae	parāta

comparative: parātior, superlative: parātissimus.

Descendants

• → Proto-Brythonic: *parọd (see there for further descendants)
• → Dutch: paraat
• → German: parat
• → Danish: parat

Etymology 2

From parō.

Noun

parātus m (genitive parātūs); fourth declension

1. preparation, provision

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	parātus	parātūs
genitive	parātūs	parātuum
dative	parātuī	parātibus
accusative	parātum	parātūs
ablative	parātū	parātibus
vocative	parātus	parātūs

References

• “paratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “paratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• paratus 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)
• paratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be resigned to a thing: (animo) paratum esse ad aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to be ready to endure anything: omnia perpeti paratum esse