gagates
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
gagates
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek γαγᾱ́της (gagā́tēs, “lignite; jet”), ultimately of Anatolian, possibly Pre-Greek, origin. Pliny compares the places Γάγας (Gágas) and Γάγγαι (Gángai), both from Lycian.[1]
Noun[edit]
gagātēs m (genitive gagātae); first declension
Declension[edit]
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs) or third-declension noun (i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | gagātēs | gagātae gagātēs |
| Genitive | gagātae gagātis |
gagātārum gagātium |
| Dative | gagātae gagātī |
gagātīs gagātibus |
| Accusative | gagātēn gagātem |
gagātās gagātēs gagātīs |
| Ablative | gagātē gagāte |
gagātīs gagātibus |
| Vocative | gagātē gagātēs |
gagātae gagātēs |
Descendants[edit]
- Dutch: git
- → English: gagate
- → German: Gagat
- Italian: gagate
- Old French: jayet
- Piedmontese: giaj
- Russian: гагат (gagat)
- Spanish: gagates
References[edit]
- “gagates”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gagates in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page Γαγάτης
Categories:
- English non-lemma forms
- English noun forms
- Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Latin terms derived from Anatolian languages
- Latin terms derived from a Pre-Greek substrate
- Latin terms derived from Lycian
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- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the first declension
- Latin masculine nouns