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gagates

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English

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Noun

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gagates

  1. plural of gagate

Latin

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Etymology

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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

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gagātēs m (genitive gagātae); first declension

  1. (with lapis) A hard, black asphalt; variety of lignite; jet, jess.

Declension

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First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs) or third-declension noun (i-stem).

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

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  • Dutch: git
  • English: gagate
  • German: Gagat
  • Italian: gagate
  • Old French: jayet
  • Piedmontese: giaj
  • Russian: гагат (gagat)
  • Spanish: gagates

References

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  • 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.
  1. ^ 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