gnatus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect active participle of gnāscor. From Proto-Italic *gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós (“produced, given birth”), from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, give birth, beget”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡnaː.tus/, [ˈŋnäːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɲa.tus/, [ˈɲäːt̪us]

Participle

gnātus (feminine gnāta, neuter gnātum); first/second-declension participle

1. Archaic form of nātus.
   • Horatius, Sermones 2.5.30-31 (c. 35 BC, tr. H. Fairclough):

     ... fama civem causaque priorem / sperne, domi si gnatus erit fecundave coniux.

     ... spurn the citizen of the better name and cause / if he have a son at home or a fruitful wife.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	gnātus	gnāta	gnātum		gnātī	gnātae	gnāta
Genitive	gnātī	gnātae	gnātī		gnātōrum	gnātārum	gnātōrum
Dative	gnātō		gnātō		gnātīs
Accusative	gnātum	gnātam	gnātum		gnātōs	gnātās	gnāta
Ablative	gnātō	gnātā	gnātō		gnātīs
Vocative	gnāte	gnāta	gnātum		gnātī	gnātae	gnāta

References

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