comatus

Latin

Etymology

From coma (“hair”). Can be analyzed as the perfect passive participle of a first-conjugation verb *comō (“I am furnished with hair”), but only this perfect participle form and the present active participle form comāns are attested in Classical Latin, and post-classical uses of other verb forms are rare. Instead of a participle, this form could be analyzed as an adjective formed directly from the noun as coma +‎ -ātus (“-ed”).

Participle

comātus (feminine comāta, neuter comātum); first/second-declension participle

1. having long hair
2. leafy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	comātus	comāta	comātum		comātī	comātae	comāta
genitive	comātī	comātae	comātī		comātōrum	comātārum	comātōrum
dative	comātō	comātae	comātō		comātīs
accusative	comātum	comātam	comātum		comātōs	comātās	comāta
ablative	comātō	comātā	comātō		comātīs
vocative	comāte	comāta	comātum		comātī	comātae	comāta

References

• “comatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• comatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• comatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.