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Latin
Etymology
From hāmus (“hook”) + -ātus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
hāmātus (feminine hāmāta, neuter hāmātum); first/second-declension adjective
- hooked, crooked
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “hamatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hamatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hamatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.