pateo

See also: pateó

Latin

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out”).

Cognate with pandō, Oscan patensíns (“they opened”), Ancient Greek πετάννυμι (petánnumi, “to spread out, to spread wide”) (< *peth₂-néu-) and πίτνημι (pítnēmi, “to spread out”) (< *pt-ne-h₂-), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬚𐬀𐬥𐬀 (paθana, “broad”), Old English fæþm (whence English fathom).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.te.oː/, [ˈpät̪eoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.te.o/, [ˈpäːt̪eo]

Verb

pateō (present infinitive patēre, perfect active patuī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

1. to be open, accessible, attainable
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.371–372:

     ‘atque utinam pugnae pateat locus! arma capessant
     et, sī nōn poterunt exsuperāre, cadant’

     “Yet if only a battlefield would open! May they fight; and, if they are unable to prevail, let them fall.”
     (The poetic voice of Mars, asking Jupiter to defend Rome against the invading Gauls, is saying in effect, “Give the Romans a chance to fight.”)

   Synonym: patēscō

2. to be exposed, vulnerable
3. to increase or extend (said of frontiers or land)
   • Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, book 1, chapter 2:

     Fīnēs...quī in longitūdinem mīlia passuum CCXL, in latitudinem CLXXX patēbant.

4. to be clear, evident

Conjugation

   Conjugation of pateō (second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	pateō		patēs		patet		patēmus		patētis		patent
	imperfect	patēbam		patēbās		patēbat		patēbāmus		patēbātis		patēbant
	future	patēbō		patēbis		patēbit		patēbimus		patēbitis		patēbunt
	perfect	patuī		patuistī		patuit		patuimus		patuistis		patuēre, patuērunt
	pluperfect	patueram		patuerās		patuerat		patuerāmus		patuerātis		patuerant
	future perfect	patuerō		patueris		patuerit		patuerimus		patueritis		patuerint
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	pateam		pateās		pateat		pateāmus		pateātis		pateant
	imperfect	patērem		patērēs		patēret		patērēmus		patērētis		patērent
	perfect	patuerim		patuerīs		patuerit		patuerīmus		patuerītis		patuerint
	pluperfect	patuissem		patuissēs		patuisset		patuissēmus		patuissētis		patuissent
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		patē		—		—		patēte		—
	future	—		patētō		patētō		—		patētōte		patentō
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		patēre			—			patēns			—
perfect		patuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		patendī		patendō		patendum		patendō		—		—

Derived terms

• bipatēns
• patefaciō
• patera
• patibulum
• pator
• Patulcius

Descendants

• Catalan: patent
• English: patent
• French: patent, patente
• Italian: patente
• Portuguese: patente
• Spanish: patente

Further reading

• “pateo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pateo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pateo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the word has a more extended signification: vocabulum latius patet
    
  • I am always welcome at his house: domus patet, aperta est mihi
    
  • from this it appears, is apparent: inde patet, appāret
    
  • (ambiguous) to extend in breadth, in length: in latitudinem, in longitudinem patere
    
  • (ambiguous) to have a wide extent: late patere (also metaphorically vid. sect. VIII. 8)
    

Portuguese

Noun

pateo m (plural pateos)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of pátio.
   • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Mudança [A New Home]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 12:

     Estavam no pateo duma fazenda sem vida. O curral deserto, o chiqueiro das cabras arruinado e tambem deserto, a casa do vaqueiro fechada, tudo annunciava abandono. Certamente o gado se finara e os moradores tinham fugido.

     They were in the yard of a barren farm. The corrals empty, the goats’ sty ruined and also deserted, the cowhand’s house closed, everything pointed to it being abandoned. Certainly the cattle had faltered and the dwellers had run.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈteo/ [paˈt̪e.o]
• Rhymes: -eo
• Syllabification: pa‧te‧o

Etymology 1

Deverbal from patear.

Noun

pateo m (plural pateos)

1. stomp; stomping; stamp; stamping

Etymology 2

Verb

pateo

1. first-person singular present indicative of patear

Further reading

• “pateo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10