acatus

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Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄκατος (ákatos).

Pronunciation

Noun

acatus f (genitive acatī); second declension

  1. a light vessel or boat

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative acatus acatī
genitive acatī acatōrum
dative acatō acatīs
accusative acatum acatōs
ablative acatō acatīs
vocative acate acatī

References

ăcătus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

  • acatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • acatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • acatus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • acatus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin