rattus
Appearance
See also: Rattus
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from a Germanic language, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rattaz (“rat”).
Noun
[edit]rattus m (variously declined, genitive rattī or rattūs); second declension, fourth declension
Usage notes
[edit]In Classical Latin, the word mūs was applied to both mice and rats without distinction.
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun or fourth-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | rattus | rattī rattūs |
genitive | rattī rattūs |
rattōrum rattuum |
dative | rattō rattuī |
rattīs rattibus |
accusative | rattum | rattōs rattūs |
ablative | rattō rattū |
rattīs rattibus |
vocative | ratte rattus |
rattī rattūs |
Descendants
[edit]- Asturian: ratu
- Catalan: rata
- Galician: rato
- Italian: ratto
- Old French: rat, rate
- Portuguese: rato
- Spanish: rata, rato, ⇒ ratón
- Translingual: Rattus, Rattus rattus
References
[edit]- rattus 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)
ratus 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)
[note: du Cange has only second declension forms and no fourth declension form]
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Germanic languages
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin nouns with multiple declensions
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the second declension
- Latin fourth declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension
- Latin masculine nouns
- Medieval Latin
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