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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of arō.
Participle
arātus (feminine arāta, neuter arātum); first/second-declension participle
- ploughed
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “aratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- aratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “aratus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “aratus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “aratus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray