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Esperanto
Pronunciation
Verb
batus
- conditional of bati
Ido
Verb
batus
- conditional of batar
Latin
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Ancient Greek βᾰ́τος (bátos, “bramble”).
Noun
batus f (genitive batī); second declension
- bramble, blackberry
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greek βάτος (bátos), from Biblical Hebrew בַּת (bath).
Noun
batus m (genitive batī); second declension
- a Hebrew measure for liquids containing about nine gallons.
References
- “batus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- batus 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)
- batus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.