vatax
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *wat- (“curved”). Cognate with vatius (“bow-legged”), Proto-Germanic *waþwô (“curve, bend; calf of the leg, knee”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯a.taːks/, [ˈu̯ät̪äːks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈva.taks/, [ˈväːt̪äks]
Adjective
[edit]vatāx (genitive vatācis); third-declension one-termination adjective
- with crooked feet
Usage notes
[edit]The orthography was emended to vatrāx because it was supposedly derived from βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”). It appears under this spelling in Lewis and Short.
Declension
[edit]Third-declension one-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | vatāx | vatācēs | vatācia | ||
| genitive | vatācis | vatācium | |||
| dative | vatācī | vatācibus | |||
| accusative | vatācem | vatāx | vatācēs | vatācia | |
| ablative | vatācī | vatācibus | |||
| vocative | vatāx | vatācēs | vatācia | ||
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “vā̆trāx”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vatax in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Eric Herbert Warmington (1935) Remains of old Latin; newly edited and translated[2], page 274