gabata

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from cavus (“hollow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.ba.ta/, [ˈɡäbät̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.ba.ta/, [ˈɡäːbät̪ä]

Noun

gabata f (genitive gabatae); first declension

1. A kind of deep dish or platter.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gabata	gabatae
Genitive	gabatae	gabatārum
Dative	gabatae	gabatīs
Accusative	gabatam	gabatās
Ablative	gabatā	gabatīs
Vocative	gabata	gabatae

Descendants

• Italian: gavetta
  • → Spanish: gaveta
• Old French:
  • French: jatte
    • → Dutch: jat
• Old Occitan: gaveda
  • → Galician: gabeta
  • → Portuguese: gaveta
• Old Galician-Portuguese:
  • Galician: gabido, gabedo, gabado, gábado
• → Old High German: gebiza, gebita
  • Middle High German: *gebse, *gebze
    • Alemannic German: Gebse, Gepse, Geps
    • Bavarian: Gebsa

References

• “gabata”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gabata 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)
• gabata in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “gabata”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers