meditatus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of meditor.

Participle

meditātus (feminine meditāta, neuter meditātum); first/second-declension participle

1. meditated
   • c. 58–57 BCE, Cicero, De Haruspicum Responso:

     Nihil feci iratus, nihil impotenti animo, nihil non diu consideratum et multo ante meditatum.

     Nothing that I did was done in anger or upon uncontrolled impulse; there was nothing that I had not long pondered and rehearsed some considerable time before.

2. intentional, premeditated

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	meditātus	meditāta	meditātum		meditātī	meditātae	meditāta
Genitive	meditātī	meditātae	meditātī		meditātōrum	meditātārum	meditātōrum
Dative	meditātō		meditātō		meditātīs
Accusative	meditātum	meditātam	meditātum		meditātōs	meditātās	meditāta
Ablative	meditātō	meditātā	meditātō		meditātīs
Vocative	meditāte	meditāta	meditātum		meditātī	meditātae	meditāta

References

• “meditatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “meditatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• meditatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a prepared speech: oratio meditata (Plin. 26. 3. 7)