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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of inveterō (“give age or duration to something”).
Participle
inveterātus (feminine inveterāta, neuter inveterātum); first/second-declension participle
- rendered old, given age or duration, aged, having been rendered old
- (by extension) kept for a long time, preserved
- (by extension) inveterate, old, of long standing, rooted
- (by extension, of diseases) deep-seated, chronic, inveterate
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “inveteratus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- inveteratus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a rooted opinion: opinio confirmata, inveterata
- to cherish an inveterate animosity against some one: odium inveteratum habere in aliquem (Vat. 3. 6)