agnatus

Latin

Etymology

• ad- + gnātus

Noun

agnātus m (genitive agnātī); second declension

1. A relative connected through the male line; an agnate
2. (law) An afterborn son, born after his father had made a will

Inflection

Second declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	agnātus	agnātī
genitive	agnātī	agnātōrum
dative	agnātō	agnātīs
accusative	agnātum	agnātōs
ablative	agnātō	agnātīs
vocative	agnāte	agnātī

Coordinate terms

• cognātus, ēnātus, gentīlis, hērēs

Derived terms

• agnascor
• agnatus proximus

Descendants

• English: agnate
• French: agnat
• Italian: agnato
• Portuguese: agnato
• Spanish: agnado

References

• agnatus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Institutes of Gaius, AD 161, defines in detail the civil law meaning of agatus of ancient Rome. A translation by M. H. Crawford is in Roman Statutes, 1996.