ratis

English

Noun

ratis

1. plural of rati

Catalan

Verb

ratis

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of ratar

Latin

Etymology

From the same Proto-Indo-European root as Lithuanian rekles (“scaffolding”), Old Church Slavonic ратиште (ratište, “staff, spear”), Latin rētae (“trees standing on the bank of a stream”). Also possibly connected to the Germanic roots of rood and rod. According to De Vaan, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”).

Noun

ratis f (genitive ratis); third declension

1. (literally) raft
2. pontoon bridge
3. (transferred sense, poetic) boat, ship, vessel
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.53:

     “[...] quassātaeque ratēs, dum nōn tractābile caelum.”

     “[You must delay Aeneas in Carthage,] while heaven [itself] is unfavorable, and [the Trojan] ships [are still] storm-damaged.”

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, accusative singular in -em or -im, ablative singular in -e or -ī).

	singular	plural
nominative	ratis	ratēs
genitive	ratis	ratium
dative	ratī	ratibus
accusative	ratem ratim	ratēs ratīs
ablative	rate ratī	ratibus
vocative	ratis	ratēs

Descendants

• Old French: reth (hapax)
• Old Occitan: rat

Adjective

ratīs

1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of ratus

References

• “ratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ratis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ratis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “ratis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ratis”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Spanish

Noun

ratis m pl or f pl

1. plural of rati