auditus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [au̯ˈdiː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [au̯ˈdiː.tus]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of audiō (“to hear”).

Participle

audītus (feminine audīta, neuter audītum); first/second-declension participle

1. heard, having been listened to.
2. accepted, agreed, having been accepted upon hearing.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	audītus	audīta	audītum		audītī	audītae	audīta
genitive	audītī	audītae	audītī		audītōrum	audītārum	audītōrum
dative	audītō	audītae	audītō		audītīs
accusative	audītum	audītam	audītum		audītōs	audītās	audīta
ablative	audītō	audītā	audītō		audītīs
vocative	audīte	audīta	audītum		audītī	audītae	audīta

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewis

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Italic *awizdiō

Latin audiō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin audītus

From audiō + -tus (forming action nouns).

Noun

audītus m (genitive audītūs); fourth declension

1. a listening, hearing

   Near-synonym: audītiō

2. the sense of hearing

   Synonym: audītiō

   Coordinate terms: gustātus, aspectus / vīsus, tāctus, odōrātus / olfactus

3. a rumor

   Synonym: audītiō

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	audītus	audītūs
genitive	audītūs	audītuum
dative	audītuī	audītibus
accusative	audītum	audītūs
ablative	audītū	audītibus
vocative	audītus	audītūs

Related terms

• audiēns
• audientia
• audiō
• audītiō
• audītor
• audītōriālis
• audītōrium
• audītōrius

Descendants

• Asturian: oyíu
• Catalan: oïda, oït
• French: ouïe, ouï
• Friulian: uldide
• Galician: oído
• Italian: udito
• Occitan: ausida
• Old Galician-Portuguese: oydo, ouvydo
  • Portuguese: ouvido
• Romanian: auzit
• Romansh: udida
• Spanish: oído
• → English: audit
• → Portuguese: audito
• → Spanish: audio

References

• “auditus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “auditus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "auditus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “auditus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • no sound passed his lips: nulla vox est ab eo audita