fatus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.

Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂-tó-s

Proto-Italic *fātos

Latin fatus

Perfect active participle of for (“speak, say”). From Proto-Italic *fātos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂-tó-s.

Pronunciation

• fātus:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.tʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.tus]
• fātūs:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.tuːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.tus]

Participle

fātus (feminine fāta, neuter fātum); first/second-declension participle

1. spoken, said, told, foretold, related, predicted; having or had spoken, etc.
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.685:

     [...] Sīc fāta gradūs ēvāserat altōs [...].

     As she had spoken these words [Anna] had been climbing the high steps [up to Dido’s pyre…].
     (T.E. Page [1967], pg. 393, notes that “‘fata’ is really a present” tense in this context, i.e.: While saying these words….)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	fātus	fāta	fātum		fātī	fātae	fāta
genitive	fātī	fātae	fātī		fātōrum	fātārum	fātōrum
dative	fātō	fātae	fātō		fātīs
accusative	fātum	fātam	fātum		fātōs	fātās	fāta
ablative	fātō	fātā	fātō		fātīs
vocative	fāte	fāta	fātum		fātī	fātae	fāta

Derived terms

• fātum

Noun

fātus m (genitive fātūs); fourth declension

1. word, saying
2. oracle, prophecy
3. fate

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fātus	fātūs
genitive	fātūs	fātuum
dative	fātuī	fātibus
accusative	fātum	fātūs
ablative	fātū	fātibus
vocative	fātus	fātūs

References

• “fatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "fatus", 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)
• “fatus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Volapük

Noun

fatus

1. predicative plural of fat