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Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek βιοθάνατος (biothánatos).
Pronunciation
Adjective
biothanatus (feminine biothanata, neuter biothanatum); first/second-declension adjective
- that died a violent death
- (Medieval Latin) that committed suicide
- (Medieval Latin, Christianity) reprobate, condemned to hell
1142, Orderic Vitalis, Historia Ecclesiastica, section 8.17:Interea sacerdos coepit secum tractare quod non auderet exsecrabilia biothanati mandata cuilibet annuntiare.- Nevertheless, the priest began to consider that he did not dare pass on to anyone the execrable tidings of a reprobate.
- (Medieval Latin, Christianity) that died without receiving last rites
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “biothanatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- biothanatus 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)
- biothanatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “biothanatus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 98
- biothanatus in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck