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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of incitō (“incite, hasten”).
Participle
incitātus (feminine incitāta, neuter incitātum, comparative incitātior); first/second-declension participle
- hastened, urged, accelerated, having been quickened
- augmented, increased, having been enhanced
- (figuratively) incited, encouraged, having been roused
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “incitatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “incitatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- incitatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to bring horses to the halt when at full gallop: equos incitatos sustinere
- at high tide: aestu incitato