mattus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet”). Cognate with Latin madeō (“I am wet”) and Sanskrit मत्त (mattá, “drunk”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmat.tus/, [ˈmät̪ːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmat.tus/, [ˈmät̪ːus]
Adjective
mattus (feminine matta, neuter mattum); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | mattus | matta | mattum | mattī | mattae | matta | |
Genitive | mattī | mattae | mattī | mattōrum | mattārum | mattōrum | |
Dative | mattō | mattō | mattīs | ||||
Accusative | mattum | mattam | mattum | mattōs | mattās | matta | |
Ablative | mattō | mattā | mattō | mattīs | |||
Vocative | matte | matta | mattum | mattī | mattae | matta |
Synonyms
References
- “mattus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mattus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.