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English
Noun
gagates
- plural of gagate
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek γαγᾱ́της (gagā́tēs, “lignite; jet”), ultimately of Anatolian, possibly Pre-Greek, origin. Pliny compares the places Γάγας (Gágas) and Γάγγαι (Gángai), both from Lycian.
Noun
gagātēs m (genitive gagātae); first declension
- (with lapis) A hard, black asphalt; variety of lignite; jet, jess.
Declension
First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ēs).
Descendants
References
- “gagates”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gagates in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page Γαγάτης