mattus
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Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Syncopated from *madĭtus (with subsequent assimilation of /dt/ to /tt/), from madēre (“be drunk, be wet”), itself from Proto-Italic *madēō, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet”). Cognate of Sanskrit मत्त (mattá, “drunk”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈmat.tus/, [ˈmät̪ːʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmat.tus/, [ˈmät̪ːus]
Adjective
[edit]mattus (feminine matta, neuter mattum); first/second-declension adjective
- drunk, intoxicated
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ebrius
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | mattus | matta | mattum | mattī | mattae | matta | |
| genitive | mattī | mattae | mattī | mattōrum | mattārum | mattōrum | |
| dative | mattō | mattae | mattō | mattīs | |||
| accusative | mattum | mattam | mattum | mattōs | mattās | matta | |
| ablative | mattō | mattā | mattō | mattīs | |||
| vocative | matte | matta | mattum | mattī | mattae | matta | |
Synonyms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “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.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mattus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/1: Mabile–Mephitis, page 518