vatax

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wat- (“curved”). Cognate with vatius (“bow-legged”), Proto-Germanic *waþwô (“curve, bend; calf of the leg, knee”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯a.taːks/, [ˈu̯ät̪äːks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈva.taks/, [ˈväːt̪äks]

Adjective

vatāx (genitive vatācis); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. with crooked feet

Usage notes

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

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	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

• vatius

References

• “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