lautus

Latin

Alternative forms

• lavātus
• lōtus

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of lavō (“wash”). Doublet of lavātus and lōtus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈlau̯.tus/, [ˈɫ̪äu̯t̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlau̯.tus/, [ˈläːu̯t̪us]

Participle

lautus (feminine lauta, neuter lautum, comparative lautior, superlative lautissimus); first/second-declension participle

1. washed, bathed, having been washed
2. elegant, luxurious, noble, glorious, rich, splendid

   Synonyms: splendidus, glōriōsus, ēlegāns, opulēns

3. fashionable, refined

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	lautus	lauta	lautum		lautī	lautae	lauta
Genitive	lautī	lautae	lautī		lautōrum	lautārum	lautōrum
Dative	lautō		lautō		lautīs
Accusative	lautum	lautam	lautum		lautōs	lautās	lauta
Ablative	lautō	lautā	lautō		lautīs
Vocative	laute	lauta	lautum		lautī	lautae	lauta

Descendants

• ⇒ Galician: louza
• ⇒ Portuguese: louça
• ⇒ Spanish: loza
• → Galician: lauto
• → Italian: lauto
• → Portuguese: lauto

References

• “lautus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lautus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lautus 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)
• lautus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to live well: laute vivere (Nep. Chab. 3. 2)
    
  • to entertain, regale a person: accipere aliquem (bene, copiose, laute, eleganter, regio apparatu, apparatis epulis)