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pateo

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Latin

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Etymology

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Derived from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (to spread out).

Cognate with pandō, Oscan patensíns (they opened), Ancient Greek πετάννυμι (petánnumi, to spread out, to spread wide) (< *peth₂-néu-) and πίτνημι (pítnēmi, to spread out) (< *pt-ne-h₂-), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬚𐬀𐬥𐬀 (paθana, broad), Old English fæþm (whence English fathom).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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pateō (present infinitive patēre, perfect active patuī); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem

  1. to be open, accessible, attainable
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.371–372:
      ‘atque utinam pugnae pateat locus! arma capessant
      et, sī nōn poterunt exsuperāre, cadant’
      “Yet if only a battlefield would open! May they fight; and, if they are unable to prevail, let them fall.”
      (The poetic voice of Mars, asking Jupiter to defend Rome against the invading Gauls, is saying in effect, “Give the Romans a chance to fight.”)
    Synonym: patēscō
  2. to be exposed, vulnerable
  3. to increase or extend (said of frontiers or land)
    • Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico, book 1, chapter 2:
      Fīnēs...quī in longitūdinem mīlia passuum CCXL, in latitudinem CLXXX patēbant.
  4. To be clear, evident

Conjugation

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   Conjugation of pateō (second conjugation, no supine stem, active only)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present pateō patēs patet patēmus patētis patent
imperfect patēbam patēbās patēbat patēbāmus patēbātis patēbant
future patēbō patēbis patēbit patēbimus patēbitis patēbunt
perfect patuī patuistī patuit patuimus patuistis patuērunt,
patuēre
pluperfect patueram patuerās patuerat patuerāmus patuerātis patuerant
future perfect patuerō patueris patuerit patuerimus patueritis patuerint
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present pateam pateās pateat pateāmus pateātis pateant
imperfect patērem patērēs patēret patērēmus patērētis patērent
perfect patuerim patuerīs patuerit patuerīmus patuerītis patuerint
pluperfect patuissem patuissēs patuisset patuissēmus patuissētis patuissent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present patē patēte
future patētō patētō patētōte patentō
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives patēre patuisse
participles patēns
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
patendī patendō patendum patendō

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Catalan: patent
  • English: patent
  • French: patent, patente
  • Italian: patente
  • Portuguese: patente
  • Spanish: patente

References

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  • pateo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pateo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pateo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the word has a more extended signification: vocabulum latius patet
    • I am always welcome at his house: domus patet, aperta est mihi
    • from this it appears, is apparent: inde patet, appāret
    • (ambiguous) to extend in breadth, in length: in latitudinem, in longitudinem patere
    • (ambiguous) to have a wide extent: late patere (also metaphorically vid. sect. VIII. 8)
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 449

Portuguese

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Noun

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pateo m (plural pateos)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of pátio.
    • 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Mudança [A New Home]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives]‎[2], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 12:
      Estavam no pateo duma fazenda sem vida. O curral deserto, o chiqueiro das cabras arruinado e tambem deserto, a casa do vaqueiro fechada, tudo annunciava abandono. Certamente o gado se finara e os moradores tinham fugido.
      They were in the yard of a barren farm. The corrals empty, the goats’ sty ruined and also deserted, the cowhand’s house closed, everything announced abandonment. Certainly the cattle had faltered and the dwellers had ran.

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /paˈteo/ [paˈt̪e.o]
  • Rhymes: -eo
  • Syllabification: pa‧te‧o

Etymology 1

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Deverbal from patear.

Noun

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pateo m (plural pateos)

  1. stomp; stomping; stamp; stamping

Etymology 2

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Verb

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pateo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of patear

Further reading

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