astratus

Perfect passive participle of asternō.

astrātus (feminine astrāta, neuter astrātum); first/second-declension participle

1. prostrated, prostrate
   • c. 330 CE, Juvencus, Evangeliorum libri quattuor 1.13:

     Cetera nam foribus tunc plebs adstrata rogabat

     For the rest of the people were praying prostrate outside

First/second-declension adjective.

• adstrātus

From astrum (“star, constellation”) +‎ -ātus.

astrātus (feminine astrāta, neuter astrātum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) starry
   • 1530, Thomas Cajetan, In Psalmos; republished as Thomæ de Vio Caietani In Psalmos, Parabolas Salomonis, & Ecclesiasten, nec non in tria priora Isaiæ Capita, Commentarii , volume 3, 1639, page 69:

     […] constat autem quòd cœli astrati, ex concauo & cõuexo (qui sunt termini figuræ cælestis) diuidũt aquas, hoc est, cælum aqueum, ab aquis elementaris materiæ.

     for it is evident that the starry heavens divide the waters, that is, the watery heaven from the waters of elementary matter, in concave and convex manners (these being the limits of the shape of the heavens).

2. (Medieval Latin) starlike, (figuratively) excellent

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “astratus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• astratus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck