detestatus

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of dētestor

Participle

dētestātus (feminine dētestāta, neuter dētestātum); first/second-declension participle

  1. cursed
  2. (Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) hated
    • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Proverbs.5.12:
      cūr dētestātus sum discīplīnam et increpātiōnibus nōn adquiēvit cor meum
      Why have I hated instruction, and my heart consented not to reproof (Douay-Rheims trans., Challoner rev.; 1752 CE)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative dētestātus dētestāta dētestātum dētestātī dētestātae dētestāta
Genitive dētestātī dētestātae dētestātī dētestātōrum dētestātārum dētestātōrum
Dative dētestātō dētestātō dētestātīs
Accusative dētestātum dētestātam dētestātum dētestātōs dētestātās dētestāta
Ablative dētestātō dētestātā dētestātō dētestātīs
Vocative dētestāte dētestāta dētestātum dētestātī dētestātae dētestāta

References

  • “detestatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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