ripaticum

Latin

Alternative forms

• rīpāticus m
• rīpāgium, rīvāgium (borrowings from Romance)

Etymology

From rīpa (“riverbank”) +‎ -āticum (noun-forming suffix). Attested from 651 CE.

Noun

rīpāticum n (genitive rīpāticī); second declension (Early Medieval Latin)

1. mooring fees
2. littoral

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	rīpāticum	rīpātica
genitive	rīpāticī	rīpāticōrum
dative	rīpāticō	rīpāticīs
accusative	rīpāticum	rīpātica
ablative	rīpāticō	rīpāticīs
vocative	rīpāticum	rīpātica

Descendants

• Catalan: ribatge
• Franco-Provençal: rivâjo
• Old French: rivage (see there for further descendants)
• Occitan: ribatge

References

• Blaise, Albert (1975) “ripaticus (-cum, ripagium, rivagium)”, in Dictionnaire latin-français des auteurs du moyen-âge: lexicon latinitatis medii aevi (Corpus christianorum) (overall work in Latin and French), Turnhout: Brepols, page 801