obligatus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of obligō (“bind in obligation”).

Participle

obligātus (feminine obligāta, neuter obligātum); first/second-declension participle

1. obliged, made liable, having been bound by obligation.
2. made guilty, having been made guilty.
3. mortgaged, pawned, having been mortgaged.
4. restrained, impeded, having been restrained.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	obligātus	obligāta	obligātum		obligātī	obligātae	obligāta
Genitive	obligātī	obligātae	obligātī		obligātōrum	obligātārum	obligātōrum
Dative	obligātō		obligātō		obligātīs
Accusative	obligātum	obligātam	obligātum		obligātōs	obligātās	obligāta
Ablative	obligātō	obligātā	obligātō		obligātīs
Vocative	obligāte	obligāta	obligātum		obligātī	obligātae	obligāta

Descendants

• → English: obligated, obligate
• French: obligé
• Italian: obbligato
• Portugues: obrigado
• Spanish: obligado

References

• “obligatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• obligatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be the slave of superstition: superstitione teneri, constrictum esse, obligatum esse